“Bridgerton” actor Ruby Barker known as out Netflix and Shondaland for failing to assist her throughout two psychotic breaks that occurred within the wake of the romance sequence’ blockbuster success. Barker was a sequence common through the present’s first season and returned as a visitor actor for Season 2. She performed Marina, a Featherington cousin whose scandalous being pregnant makes her a social pariah in Regency-era London. Barker mentioned her first psychotic break occurred in 2019 after she wrapped manufacturing on “Bridgerton” Season 1. A second one occurred in 2022. The actor mentioned she bought “no assist” from Netflix.
“Not a single particular person from Netflix, not a single particular person from Shondaland, since I’ve had two psychotic breaks from that present, have even contacted me and even emailed me to ask me if I’m okay or if I’d profit from any form of aftercare or assist,” Barker mentioned throughout an interview on Oxford College’s LOAF Podcast (by way of The Each day Beast). “No person.”
Selection has reached out to Netflix and Shondaland for remark.
In response to Barker, her psychological well being began declining through the filming of “Bridgerton.” She claimed her character’s remoted nature negatively impacted her.
“Throughout filming, I used to be deteriorating,” she mentioned. “It was a very tormenting place for me to be as a result of my character was very alienated, very ostracized, on her personal underneath these horrible circumstances.”
“After I went into hospital per week after taking pictures ‘Bridgerton’ Season 1, it was actually coated up and saved on the down-low as a result of the present was going to be popping out,” Barker continued on the podcast. “Within the run-up to the present popping out, I used to be simply popping out from hospital, my Instagram following was going up, I had all these engagements to do… My life was altering drastically in a single day and but there was nonetheless no assist and there nonetheless hasn’t been any assist all that point. So I used to be attempting actually, actually exhausting to behave prefer it was okay and that I may work and that it wasn’t an issue.”
Barker alluded to her psychotic breaks in a Might 2022 Instagram put up when she disclosed that she was “actually unwell for a very very long time” and had been “struggling since ‘Bridgerton.’” She thanked Netflix on the time for “saving her” by casting her in “Bridgerton,” however now she is criticizing the streamer for not supporting her.
“I’m in hospital on the minute and I’m going to be discharged quickly and hopefully get to proceed with my life,” Barker informed her followers on the time. “I used to be raged-filled, offended, all this intergenerational trauma bundled up inside me. I used to be carrying the burden of the world on my again and now I’m on the level the place I’ve a analysis.”
Now on the LOAF podcast, Barker mentioned that she had no assist from the studios behind “Bridgerton” and needed to promote the present by a distressing interval of her life. She added, “It’s virtually like I had this metaphorical invisible gun to my head to promote this present as a result of this present is bubbly and enjoyable. I don’t wish to come out and poo poo on that as a result of then I’ll by no means work once more.”
Watch Barker’s full look on the podcast within the video beneath.
