‘Lost Highway’ Filmmaker David Lynch Shares Emphysema Diagnosis

The award-winning filmmaker was diagnosed with the lung disease due to ’many years of smoking.’

David Lynch walks the red carpet during the 12th Rome Film Fest in Rome, Italy, on Nov. 4, 2017. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

Award-winning filmmaker David Lynch, renowned for his surrealist films, including “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet,” and “Mulholland Drive,” has revealed that he was diagnosed with a chronic lung disease.

In a post shared to his X account on Aug. 5, Lynch, 78, wrote that he suffers from emphysema due to “many years of smoking.”