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Ruby Rose Had to Have Emergency Surgery Following a Stunt Injury That Almost Paralyzed Her


On Thursday, September 26, Ruby Rose posted a graphic video to Instagram that shows her undergoing emergency surgery after a serious stunt injury left her at risk of being paralyzed. The actress, who told her fans she had two herniated discs that nearly severed her spinal cord, documented her entire medical experience and shared all the bloody details.

In a lengthy caption, the 33-year-old Batwoman star also explained why she decided to film the surgery; it turns out, it was all because of a past episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

“Well that was fun,” she began her post. “To everyone asking about my new Pez dispenser scar on my neck… A couple of months ago I was told I needed an emergency surgery or I was risking becoming paralyzed.”

“I had herniated two discs doing stunts, and they were close to severing my spinal cord. I was in chronic pain and yet couldn’t feel my arms,” she continued.

“Thank you Dr. Bray for everything you did and for allowing me to keep working and doing what I love,” she added. “I am forever in your debt.”

So, how does the hit ABC drama tie into all of this? Rose clarified in her caption, “Did you not watch that Grey’s Anatomy episode where they left a towel in a patient?? Also, I wanted to see what happens when we go under.”

You can watch the video at your own discretion, below, but be warned… it’s not for the squeamish.

She also shared a less graphic clip on YouTube ahead of her surgery. In it, she tells her doctors where she feels pain.

“It changes all the time, but right now it’s down the right side of my neck,” Rose explained. “It’s this right shoulder blade and around the rib cage area, down the arms. They’re either numb or they’re in pain.”

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Though it’s unclear when she sustained the injury, this isn’t the first time Rose has needed surgery for her spine. In 2018, she tweeted that she had been suffering from a spinal issue for the last decade and needed surgery to rectify it. She told fans about her situation after they questioned why she was walking with a cane, later embracing the fact that she needed a little support.



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Ruby Rose Quit Twitter After Getting Bullied About Her Batwoman Casting


Earlier this week, The CW announced that it had cast Ruby Rose as Batwoman in a new television special premiering this December and possibly for a forthcoming series that is currently in development. Because the modern incarnation of the character is an out lesbian, Rose, who identifies as a lesbian, could play the first openly gay superhero to headline an entire TV show. However, the news has also drawn a wave of backlash—and now the intense criticism seems to have driven Rose off of Twitter.

Rose was emotional as she shared the news of her casting on Instagram on Wednesday. Later, she went on The Tonight Show and got a little tearful talking about what the new role means to her in terms of LGBTQ+ representation. “I feel like the reason I kept getting so emotional is that growing up, watching TV, I never saw someone on TV that I could identify with, let alone a superhero, you know?” she said.

But shortly after the announcement got around, Twitter skeptics chimed in about the casting. Many noted that the Batwoman character—whose real name is Kate Kane—was actually reintroduced into the DC Comics world as being of Jewish descent, which Rose is not. Others questioned Rose’s acting skills, and some brought up one of Rose’s tweets from 2013 that seemed to out another entertainer. A #RecastBatwoman hashtag started circulating, with people also wondering why the role couldn’t have gone to a lesser-known LGBTQ+ actress in need of an acting break. Critics also accused Rose of not being a lesbian since she also refers to herself as gender-fluid (to be clear: It is 100 percent up to an individual how they define their gender and sexual identities—if they choose to define them at all).

It got to the point where Rose quit Twitter—something people picked up on on Saturday. She’d issued a last tweet on Friday: “Where on earth did ‘Ruby is not a lesbian therefore she can’t be Batwoman’ come from — has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. I came out at 12? And have for the past 5 years had to deal with ‘she’s too gay’ how do y’all flip it like that? I didn’t change.” Her Instagram is still active, but the comments have been disabled.

The CW hasn’t said anything about the controversy, but it did post a promo on its Instagram on Wednesday.

There were also plenty of supporters who had Rose’s back and sympathized with her.

Cyber-bullying is never OK, especially when it attacks someone’s identity as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Here’s hoping that Rose is taking the time and space she needs.

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Ruby Rose Has Been Cast as Batwoman, the First Openly Gay Superhero to Headline a TV Show





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Ruby Rose Just Teared Up Talking About Her Batwoman Casting


Earlier this week model and actress Ruby Rose—whom you may know best from her previous roles in Orange Is the New Black or Pitch Perfect 3—made history when she was cast as Batwoman in the CW’s upcoming Batwoman series. The casting is cool on a surface level, but Rose will be playing the first openly gay superhero to headline a television series, adding another layer of significance to the network’s decision. Specifically, she’ll be “an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city’s criminal resurgence.”

Rose took to Instagram shortly after the announcement and said how “thrilled and honored” she is to have the role and joked that she’ll be an “emotional wreck” for the foreseeable future. She also appeared on The Tonight Show Wednesday night to discuss what it means on a deeper level for her and the LGBTQ community. “It’s a game changer. I found out an hour before I did the premiere for The Meg, and I was so nervous doing the red carpet, that I basically skipped everybody because I kept spontaneously crying. I feel like I’m going to do it now,” she told Jimmy Fallon. “I feel like the reason I kept getting so emotional is that growing up, watching TV, I never saw someone on TV that I could identify with, let alone a superhero, you know?”

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The actress also believes Batwoman is ushering her into a new phase of her life too. “I’ve always had this saying—well, not me, Oscar Wilde—which is ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ And the second motto when I came into the industry was ‘Be the person that you needed when you were younger,'” she continued. “So one motto led me to the other, and I kept crying about it.” And now we are too.

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Ruby Rose Takes Glamour's 'Big Questions' Survey


You may know Ruby Rose as the outspoken tattooed antagonist inmate Stella Carlin on Season 3 of Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black or maybe you’ve seen her act as a badass assassin in the blockbuster action movie xXx: Return of Xander Cage or as a villain in the John Wick series.

Now, the 32-year-old actress, model, DJ hybrid is starring in another action flick, The Meg, out August 10, in which she battles a 75-foot prehistoric shark terrorizing the ocean off the coast of China. To promote her new role, Rose candidly answered “The Big Questions” for Glamour’s September issue below.

What’s your full name, and where does it come from?

Ruby Rose Langenheim. My mom wanted to call me Katinka…but at the last minute called me Ruby. I don’t think Katinka would’ve been the right name for me.

What’s your idea of true happiness?

Peace. If you can’t get peace, then dogs. Dogs help.

On the other hand, what is your idea of hell on Earth?

Being a chicken in a cage like a farm chicken. I’m vegan so I feel like I’ve watched too many documentaries and rewatching Dirty Money and Rotten have really just put in my mind again how bad it is.

If you could be anyone, real or fictional, who would you be?

A Ninja Turtle. Leonardo, for sure. Donatello was a bit boring, Michelangelo didn’t do anything except order the pizza, and Raphael was too serious. Leonardo always just saved the day. And then you have an inbuilt squad and a group of friends. You get to eat pizza, you get to wear a cool outfit, and save the world. I feel like that would be so much fun. And live in a sewer and not have to deal with people.

What’s a headline about yourself you’d love to read?

“Ruby Rose Reincarnates As Ninja Turtle!”

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If the apocalypse comes, what skill could you contribute to the new society?

With all of the films I’ve done with sharks and zombies, I could teach people how to avoid dying.

What is something you wish you’d written it could be a book or a song, a movie, a poem?

It would be pretty cool to be the person who wrote The Godfather.

What’s your most irrational fear?

I do not like saying them out loud because I feel like you manifest things that you say a lot. So if you have a fear of something and then you say it, you publish it, then it’s legitimately a solidified fear. Whereas if I just ignore it and not talk about it and tell myself I don’t have any fears then I become fearless.

You have to give up sex, booze, or laughter. Which do you pick?

Booze. Life without booze is more energy, less hangovers, and sounds kind of like a good thing.

What advice would you give to 18-year-old Ruby Rose?

“Be nicer to yourself, and don’t take everything so personally.”

What advice would your 18-year-old self give to you now?

“You have nothing to complain about because your life is amazing. You’d betterbe appreciative.”

This story appeared in Glamour’s September 2018 issue.



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