According to PageSix, “Bridgerton” star Ruby Barker called out Netflix and Shondaland after claiming she suffered
“two psychotic breaks”.
The actress said in an interview that she didn’t receive the support she expected from the production team when she had a breakdown twice in the span of three years.
“Not a single person from Netflix, not a single person from Shondaland, since I have had two psychotic breaks from that show, have even contacted me or even emailed me to ask me if I’m OK or ask me if I would benefit from any sort of aftercare or support,”
she said.
“Nobody,”
she added.
Ruby went further to say that her character in the movie caused her to she experience isolation.
“During the filming, I was deteriorating,”
Barker, 26, said.
“It was a really tormenting place for me to be because my character was very alienated, very ostracized, on her own under these horrible circumstances,”
the actress added.
The actress spoke on going to the hospital after shooting the first season.
“It was really covered up and kept on the down-low because the show was going to be coming out,” she said.
Barker felt the need to stay on track and keep up with the pressure since her career kicked off.
“My life was changing drastically overnight and yet there was still no support and there still hasn’t been any,”
she said.
“So I was trying really, really hard to act like it was fine … that I could work and that it wasn’t a problem.”
When she felt better, she discussed her second psychological break. The actress took to her social media to let her fans in on her life.
“I was carrying the weight of the world on my back, now I am at the point where I have a diagnosis, I will talk to you about that at another time,”
she said back in May 2022.
“I can’t carry on the way that I’ve been. I need to change, so that’s what I am trying to do. I want to survive, and I will survive. I am going to.”
#Clique, what are your thoughts on this?
