Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker wore sanitary pads under her armpits to cope with anxiety sweats

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It’s 20 minutes after our interview is scheduled to begin, the very first of the day, and Ruby Barker is nowhere to be seen.

Where could the Bridgerton star be? If Lady Whistledown was doing this interview, her rumour mill would be whirring by now. A scandalous liaison with a society rake?

An overnight elopement? Actually, the truth is far less Netflix-worthy. A terribly apologetic Ruby finally limps in, having struggled to make her way through the sprawling grounds of the stately Beaverbrook hotel that’s hosting us. “My back’s gone,” she explains, settling gingerly onto the suite’s antique sofa. “I slept on it wrong last night.This morning I woke up and I was like Regina George in Mean Girls after she got hit by a bus.” It’s not quite the glamorous entrance we’ve come to expect from Ruby, or rather her Bridgerton character.

As Miss Marina Thompson, she was a dazzling debutante hiding a pregnancy beneath her corset in season one, and we’re about to pick up her next chapter as the Netflix blockbuster returns on 25 March.