Actress and Renegade star Ruth Cord undergoes second leg amputation at 29

irish actress and British celebrity traitor Star Ruth Codd She is recovering after her remaining leg was amputated.

Corder, 29, whose right leg was amputated when she was 23, revealed the news of further surgery in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday, November 26.

“I just had my second below-the-knee amputation,” she said in a video filmed at her parents’ home in Ireland, quipping, “There’s a lot to unpack for everyone involved.”

“Who doesn’t love having no legs? #paralympics2026,” the actress captioned her video.

Corder has previously publicly admitted that he injured his right leg while playing football at the age of 15. A few years later, her broken leg failed to heal, so it was amputated below the knee.

“I got injured when I was 15, and my leg wasn’t amputated until I was 23. So, it was eight years of surgery after surgery, and sometimes they would work for a while, and then I would end up back on crutches,” she told me. teen fashion October 2022. “At that age, you think you’re unstoppable and you have to learn a lot at such a young age that sometimes life doesn’t really go the way you thought it would.”

“But I wouldn’t change it. It’s made me a very resilient person. I’m grateful to be able to do simple things like go for a walk or ride a bike or ride a horse. It teaches you not to take things for granted,” she added at the time.

Corder said her “life really changed” after having her right leg amputated, calling it “the best thing I’ve ever done.”

“I spent years trying to get out of it and basically had every surgery under the sun,” she explains. “I was so scared that this was going to happen. And then, when it happened, I was like, ‘Oh.'” But I got through it, and I’m fine — still here. I remember the first step of putting the prosthetic leg on, like the first thing I said was, “Oh, it doesn’t hurt anymore.” I didn’t even realize how much pain I was in all the time. I just got used to it. “

Cord first became famous on TikTok and was discovered by a casting director at Netflix. midnight clubproducer Hill House is Haunted creator Mike Flanagan. She plays terminally ill amputee Anya in the 2022 series, reuniting with Flanagan in the 2023 series The Fall of the House of Usher.

“There’s so little representation of people with disabilities in the media right now,” she said in an interview about playing Anya. teen fashion. “A lot of times, we’re forgotten. When we’re represented, we’re either this holy little thing who shouldn’t have this happen to her, or you’re portrayed as a miserable person. … Whereas Anya, she’s just a human being, and the focus is on her character, not her disability. She’s a firecracker — very brave and funny.”

Most recently, Cord appeared in the live-action film ” How to train your dragon and was a contestant on the hit BBC show British celebrity traitorwhich also introduces Stephen Fry, Ted Russoof Nick Muhammad, thursday murder clubof Celia Imrie The ultimate winner, the comedian Alan Carr.