“Bridgerton” star Ruby Barker has broken her arm after taking a tumble during a boulder-climbing session.
The actor was rushed to hospital after falling from a climbing wall on April 3. Barker later revealed she’d suffered a dislocated elbow and a broken arm and admitted the pain was “a solid 10 out of 10.”
“Right, guys, that’s me I’m off to hospital. I just came off this one up [climbing wall] here and I fell wrong on my arm,” she said.
“I believe I dislocated my arm, and I’m in a lot of pain and I’m waiting on an ambulance. This is bouldering, man, but I’m being taken care of really well. The ambulance might be three hours,” she wrote on Instagram after the accident.
Barker, who played Marina Thompson in the first series of the Netflix show, decided not to wait for the ambulance and was driven to hospital by a friend.
“We managed to make it into the car and we’re going to go to Leeds General Infirmary by ourselves …,” the actor said.
“Any movement is hard,” she continued. “I’ve got a nice splint here. We’ve made a splint out of an oat milk box — keep it vegan — and hopefully, we’ll get there safely and without too much movement. But we’re in the car, and we’re going there now, so I feel really positive about that.”
“Pain-wise it’s a solid 10 out of 10 and I have no idea how I’m managing to keep it this real but I’m strong as we can see,” Barker said.
“Dislocated elbow. Possible fracture, waiting in [the emergency room] the elbow out to do another round of X-rays. l’m only rope climbing from now on, mark my words. I was bouldering with a crash matt, but the impact — and way I fell on my arm — just snapped it out, man,” she added in a later update.
Barker left the hospital later that night and confirmed her arm was actually broken. “I broke my arm, bro, but, yeah, it [climbing] was awesome,” she commented.
Barker has been open about her mental health struggles in recent years and her climbing wall accident came just a day after she went public with her diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
“Hi, I’m bipolar. I have a diagnosis now, cause for celebration … ” she wrote in an Instagram pot on April 2.
Barker previously claimed Netflix bosses failed to support her properly when she suffered mental health issues while filming “Bridgerton.”
“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,” she explained during an appearance on Oxford University’s “The LOAF Podcast.”
Barker alleged she didn’t have solid support during filming, and she was admitted to hospital one week into shooting the first season back in 2019.
“That was really covered up and kept on the down low, because the show was going to be coming out. Not a single person from Netflix, not a single person from [production company] Shondaland — since I have had two psychotic breaks — from that show have even contacted me or emailed me to ask me if I’m OK or ask me if I would benefit from any sort of aftercare or support,” she claimed.
