Actress and Traitors Star Ruth Codd Undergoes 2nd Leg Amputation at 29

Irish actress and celebrity traitors in the UK star Ruth Code She is recovering after having her remaining leg amputated.

Cudd, 29, who had her right leg amputated when she was 23, revealed the news of undergoing another surgery in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday, November 26.

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

The actress captioned her video, “No legs, who is it? #paralympics2026.”

Cudd has previously spoken about injuring her right leg playing soccer when she was 15 years old. After her broken leg failed to heal, it was amputated below the knee several years later.

“I was injured when I was 15, and my leg wasn’t amputated until I was 23. So, those eight years were one operation after another, and sometimes they would work for a while, and then I would end up back on crutches,” she said. Teen Vogue in October 2022. “At that age, you think you’re unstoppable, and you had to learn at a very young age that sometimes life doesn’t really work out the way you thought it would.”

She added at the time: “But I wouldn’t change that. It’s made me a really resilient person. I’m grateful that I’m able to do simple things like walk around or ride a bike or ride a horse. It kind of teaches you not to take things for granted.”

Cudd said her “life kind of took a turn” after she had her right leg amputated, calling it “the best thing I’ve ever done.”

“I spent many years trying to skin a dead horse and had every surgical procedure under the sun,” she explained. “And I was so afraid this thing would happen. Then, when it did, I was like, ‘Oh.’ But I got through it and I’m fine, and I’m still here. The first step I remember when I took my prosthetic leg, like the first thing I said was, ‘Oh, it doesn’t hurt anymore.’ I didn’t even realize how much pain I was in the whole time. I just got used to it.”

Codd first gained fame on TikTok, where she was spotted by casting directors on Netflix Midnight Clubproduced by Haunting Hill House creator Mike Flanagan. She played Anya, a terminally ill amputee, in the 2022 series and reunited with Flanagan in 2023. The fall of the House of Usher.

“You don’t get a lot of representation of people with disabilities in the media these days,” she said of Anya’s role in her interview. Teen Vogue. “A lot of times, we’re forgotten. When we’re cast, we’re either this kind of saintly little thing that doesn’t deserve this to happen to you or you’re portrayed as bitter. … Whereas Anya, she’s just a human being, and the focus is on her character and not her disability. She’s a firecracker — really angry and funny.”

Most recently, Codd appeared in the live-action film adaptation of The Dark Knight How to train your dragon He was one of the contestants on the BBC programme Celebrity traitors in the UKwhich also appeared Stephen Fry, Ted Lasso‘s Nick Muhammad, Murder Club Thursday‘s Celia Imrie The ultimate winner is the comedian Alan Carr.