‘Bridgerton’ Star Ruby Barker called out Netflix and Shondaland After Suffering Psychotic Breaks and for Not Offering Support: ‘I Was Deteriorating’ While Filming
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‘Bridgerton’ Star Ruby Barker called out Netflix and Shondaland After Suffering Psychotic Breaks and for Not Offering Support: ‘I Was Deteriorating’ While Filming
by Ripclawe
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Seems pretty bog standard for any job.
Most would just fire you if you had a psychotic break.
It’s really wonderful when the company you work for and/or your direct bosses care about you, your health and well-being but they are not obligated to care.
They hired you for a job that you are now unable to do. That’s the end of the agreement made by both parties. I want the world to be a nicer place but it’s just not and to expect a job (especially a shoot that lasts less than a year) to go above and beyond to support your mental health just sounds whiny and entitled.
welcome to the workforce
Why does she think that they are supposed to care? Your family and friends hold your hand, pat your back and give you pep talks, not the job!
I’ve never worked a job where I had a mental breakdown at home and they decided to get involved. Why would any business do so? This is about the last person I would hire if I were in casting.
You have to be your own advocate. It’s not your employer’s responsibility
Maybe I’m a bit too GenX, but is it her workplace’s responsibility to check up on her?? Her family and friends should be doing this not her employer. Work should be paying for your health insurance so you can have this care covered.
In my world, work and personal should be separate.
All that said, this must be devastating for her and I hope she gets the help she needs.
I haven’t been able to read the article but if her job was partly or whole to blame for the breakdown then they should have a responsibility for care. A large production would have to insure the actors for a variety of illnesses and injuries that could happen during the shoot. Metal health injuries are a bitch
Wow. The lack of compassion in this world is disgusting.
Y’all suck.
Businesses & corporations only ‘care’ when the law forces them. The film industry is a business…
Legally (here) corporations are required to provide ‘support’ to people but it’s only in the form of letting people know which helplines to call.
We get an email once a year just saying “ if you need to talk or are struggling, call this number” and then we’ll be told that managers are not therapists. So…super supportive lol
No empathy wow. If this were an overreacting white actress the tone would be so different
I didn’t read the whole thing but in another article she talked about the production company covering it up and sending her out to do press when she had just got out of the hospital. She also talked about being thrust into sudden fame when the first season was released but no one helping her navigate that even though they knew she had just been treated for a psychotic break. No one asked her how she was doing, thought about the affect any of this could have, gave her any guidance or training, or even mentioned the situation to her. And when she was hospitalized again, no one contacted her the second time either.
So that is the crux of her complaint I believe.
Your employer is not your parents. Your place of work is not your home. The same logic also applies to educational facilities, public places, and branches of government. Young kids nowadays just don’t get it.
This thread is depressing. People want to consistently go after her for not realizing that employers in the US don’t care about your problems. Okay, well she’s already admitted to having a break with reality and isn’t coping with her life. Maybe she’s not thinking like someone with zero mental health issues. She probably isn’t doing that great now despite the interviews.
Would seem to be the responsibility of her family and her manager, assuming she had one. Many actors don’t.
I feel for her on a personal level but this seems like it’s coming to the verge of professional suicide. Word’s gonna get out that she has mental breakdowns during filming, that she expects her bosses/coworkers to provide her resources for it and that she will publicly call them out if they don’t. This is gonna make some people think twice about hiring her onto the team.
Issues with on camera talent and Shondaland? Hmmm, seems a bit like a pattern, like a giant checker wallpaper in front of your face.
Sorry she had to go through that. I guess it was good to have a job, but being associated with that steaming pos show, would be regretted by anyone.
I cannot watch anything with any of those actors. I watched fair play with Phoebe Dynevor and I couldn’t forget the Bridgerton fail throughout the whole show.
Shonda, dont mess with British period pieces please.
It’s like a person who packs boxes in an Amazon warehouse asking why Jeff Bezos didn’t call to check on them when they don’t work there anymore. She accepted the job, her manager or agent shouldn’t have been putting her up for roles if she was fragile.
She’s clearly not well even now — her sense of what is reasonable is warped.