Irish actress and Celebrity Traitors U.K. star Ruth Codd is recovering after having her remaining leg amputated.
Codd, 29, who had her right leg amputated when she was 23, revealed the news that she had undergone further surgery in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday, November 26.
“I’ve just had my second below-knee amputation,” she said in a video filmed at her parents’ home in Ireland, going on to quip, “A lot to unpack there for everyone involved.”
“No legs, who dis? #paralympics2026,” the actress captioned her video.
Codd previously opened up about injuring her right leg while playing soccer when she was 15. After her broken leg failed to heal, she had it amputated below the knee several years later.
“I got injured at 15, and I didn’t get my leg amputated until I was 23. So, those eight years were operation after operation, and, sometimes they kind of worked for a while, and then I’d end up back on crutches,” she told Teen Vogue in October 2022. “At that age, you think you’re unstoppable, and it was a lot of having to learn a bit too young that sometimes life doesn’t really work out the way you thought it would.”
“But I wouldn’t change it. It made me a really resilient person. I’m thankful for just being able to do simple things like walk around or go on a bike or ride my horse. It kind of teaches you to not take things for granted,” she added at the time.
Codd said that her “life really kind of took a turn” after she had her right leg amputated, describing it as “the best thing I ever did.”
“I spent so many years trying to flog a dead horse, essentially, and having every operation under the sun,” she explained. “And I was so scared of this one thing happening. Then, when it happened, I was like, ‘Oh.’ But I got through it and I’m fine — still here. The first step I remember taking on my prosthetic leg, like the first thing I said was, ‘Oh, it’s not sore anymore.’ I didn’t even realize how much pain I was in all the time. I had just gotten used to it.”
Codd first gained fame on TikTok, from which she was spotted by casting directors for Netflix’s The Midnight Club, produced by The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan. She played Anya, an amputee with a terminal illness, in the 2022 series and reunited with Flanagan for 2023’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
“You don’t get a lot of disabled representation in media nowadays,” she said of playing Anya in her interview with Teen Vogue. “A lot of times, we’re forgotten about. When we are represented, we’re either this kind of saintly little thing that didn’t deserve for this to happen to her or you’re portrayed as bitter. … Whereas, Anya, she’s just human, and the emphasis is on her character and not so much her disability. She’s a firecracker — really ballsy and funny.”
More recently, Codd appeared in the live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon and was a contestant on the BBC’s hit Celebrity Traitors U.K., which also featured Stephen Fry, Ted Lasso’s Nick Mohammed, Thursday Murder Club’s Celia Imrie and eventual winner, comedian Alan Carr.
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