Ruby Barker sustained an injury while bouldering, and the incident was recorded on tape.
The Bridgerton actress spent time at a climbing facility, but her pastime had negative implications.
The video starts with Ruby, 27, demonstrating her extraordinary ability to scale a wall. When bouldering at a low height, it is normal practice to use a crash mat beneath rather of a rope or harness, as Ruby did.
Unfortunately, Ruby lost her grasp and plummeted backwards, twisting in the air before landing on her arm.
The video abruptly shuts off after she shouts ‘Argh’ and the guy filming asks, ‘You okay?’
Ruby kept followers updated in the hours following the fall. She posted images of herself in the hospital; in one, Ruby is being pushed in a wheelchair with an ice pack on her arm, and in another, the arm is in a sling.
‘Love Gas & Air 🤣 apparently I didn’t want to give it back but have no memory of that lol,’ she wrote.
While driving to the hospital, she described the pain as a’solid 10 out of 10′ on Instagram stories.
As she made her way to Leeds General Infirmary, she mentioned a prior fan letter warning her of potential hazards.
‘I had a comment from a fan saying “Ruby you could break your neck here you’re not wearing the proper PPE there’s no crash mat”.
‘Well there is a crashmat, this is bouldering you know, you only climb up to about eight feet, it’s about how you fall but the nature of the climb, it propelled me forward so I couldn’t land falling back which is what I should have done.
‘I deleted this fan’s negative comment because I was like “Oh listen to this negative Nelly” and it turns out, she was right!’ she concluded.
While Ruby initially thought it was a dislocation, after leaving the hospital on Wednesday night, she wrote: ‘I broke my arm bro but yeah it was awesome.’
Ruby had decided just hours before to write about a recent mental health diagnosis.
‘Hi, I’m bipolar 🥹 I have a diagnosis now, cause for celebration #bipolar #mentalhealth #notalone #lastsundance,’ she wrote alongside a photo of her sipping a beverage.
Ruby, who played Marina Thompson in the first series of Bridgerton (2020), previously revealed she felt like she had been ‘really unwell for a long time’ and had been taken to hospital after feeling like she was ‘carrying the weight of the world on my back’.
‘I was getting on well during the film [Bridgerton], I was deteriorating the minute that we wrapped,’ she recalled on the LOAF podcast.
‘I think it kind of helped for me. A lot of artists suffer from mental health, and I think it did kind of help me get into that headspace in that world. 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.’
In the show, her character Marina is taken to London from the countryside to live with her distant relatives, the Featheringtons. After discovering she is pregnant during a secret romance, she is confined to her chamber before catastrophic efforts to marry her.
Bridgerton is available to stream on Netflix.