Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker Reveals She Was Hospitalized for Mental Health, Says Shonda Rhimes Saved Her

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The weight of the world. Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker is on the road to recovery with her mental health and she’s crediting Shonda Rhimes for helping her get there.In a video posted via Instagram on Thursday, May 26, the 25-year-old actress revealed she was recently hospitalized for an undiagnosed mental health condition after realizing she had been “really unwell for a long time.”“I just want to be honest with everybody, I have been struggling,” she said at the beginning of the clip. “So, I’m in the hospital at the minute, I’m gonna get discharged soon and hopefully get to continue with my life and I’m gonna take a little bit of a break from myself.”The England native credited Rhimes, 52, and Netflix “for giving me an opportunity, for saving me” as well as her best friends who “know who they are.”Barker noted that while she had to previously drop out of a West End production of Running with Lions after contracting COVID-19 in addition to dealing with mental illness, she has high hopes for herself once she’s able to be discharged.“I cannot wait to fulfill all of my engagements and to have a good career and a good life,” she said on Thursday. “Because I do not want my diagnosis to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I want to survive and I will survive, and I’m going to. And so are you. That’s the beauty of it, so are you. If you’re with me, you’re in good hands.

Thank you.”The actress has portrayed Maria Thompson, a distant cousin of the Featherington family, who is sent to live with them in London to get her first taste of Regency-era high society, in the streaming service series since it premiered in 2020 and has been outspoken about her praise for the shows colorblind casting.“I’d seen Belle, the film about Dido Elizabeth