The dire predicament of her character, she said, affected her personally. Lady Crane also appears in the second season of the acclaimed high-society series.īarker said she suffered her first psychotic break just after wrapping the first season in 2019, and the second one in 2022. And a week after shooting the first season of the show, she was hospitalised, she said, but it was 'really, really covered up and kept on the down-low because the show was going to be coming out.'īarker's Lady Crane was a major character in the first season of the show - a distant cousin of the Featheringtons who cunningly wins the affection of Colin Bridgerton with the hope that a quick engagement will hide a pregnancy from a former paramour and allow her to enter society with her honour intact. Barker said that during the filming, she was 'deteriorating'. The actor, who starred as Lady Marina Crane in Netflix's wildly successful Regency-era romance series, called out the streamer and Shondaland for their lack of support. Bridgerton actor Ruby Barker says shooting the Netflix series caused her mental health to deteriorate, leading to two psychotic breaks.
