Ruby Barker, who portrayed Marina Thompson on Bridgerton, is slamming Netflix and production company Shondaland after she suffered from two psychotic breaks that left her hospitalised.
“When I went into hospital a week after shooting Bridgerton season one, that was really, really covered up and kept on the down-low because the show was going to be coming out,” she began.
“I was deteriorating,” Barker, 26, said on The LOAF podcast. “It was a really tormenting place for me to be because my character was very alienated, very ostracised, on her own, under these horrible circumstances.”
Barker continued to explain that she experienced her first breakdown after the first season of Bridgerton, which wrapped in 2019, and a second in 2022, reports Fox News.
“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 emailed me to ask me if I’m OK or ask me if I would benefit from any sort of aftercare or support,” the actress alleged. “Nobody.”
She went on to say that after not feeling supported, Barker tried “really, really hard” to brush it off and convince herself she was “fine.”
“My life was changing drastically overnight, and yet there was still no support, and there still hasn’t been any support for that time,” she said.
“So, I was trying really, really hard to just sort of act like, you know, this is fine. This is OK. I’m OK. I can work. It’s not a problem.”
The Bridgerton star further explained that she constantly felt pressure to pretend everything was normal after production but deep down she knew it wasn’t.
“It’s almost like I had this kind of metaphorical invisible gun to my head to sell this show because this show’s bubbly and fun and all of these things,” she noted.
“I don’t want to come out and poo, poo on that because then I might never work again.”
Barker candidly spoke out about how she treated her mental health, and confessed she went on medication that turned her into a “zombie.”
She explained that she had to consistently take the treatment for a year, or she was at “risk” for “having another episode, breakdown.”
She said being on medication impacted how she would communicate with her loved ones, and they could recognise she didn’t appear present.
Barker previously spoke out about her “mental health struggle” in May 2022 on social media.
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Since her psychotic breaks, the How to Stop a Recurring Dream star has found making music “therapeutic” after her hospitalisations last year.
Netflix, Shondaland and reps for Barker did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
This article originally appeared in Fox News and was reproduced with permission
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