‘Clearly distressed’ actor Jessica Marais taken to hospital
Popular Aussie actor Jessica Marais was rushed to a Sydney hospital on Saturday, after police and paramedics responded to a call saying the Gold Logie winner was in poor health at her eastern suburbs home.
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Family and friends have rallied around Gold Logie-winning actor Jessica Marais after she was rushed to a Sydney hospital.
The former star of top-rating TV shows Packed To The Rafters, The Wrong Girl and Love Child, was taken by ambulance for treatment after authorities received a call she was in poor health.
Two police cars and an ambulance arrived at Marais’ eastern suburbs home at 2pm on Saturday before the mother-of-one was taken to the emergency department of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick for examination.
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On Saturday night, representatives for the actor could not be reached for comment on her condition, however NSW Police confirmed they and NSW Ambulance had assisted a 35-year-old female.
“About midday today police attached to Eastern Beaches attended a unit in Beach St to assist NSW Ambulance with a 35-year-old female patient,” a NSW Police spokeswoman said.
“No further information is available.”
The incident comes two months after the actor abruptly pulled out of Seven’s Back To The Rafters reboot citing “personal reasons”.
Two years prior she checked herself into a Bronte rehab facility to attend to a “number of urgent health issues”.
One onlooker, who did not wish to be named, said the 35-year-old was distressed on Saturday as two police officers helped her walk to paramedics who promptly placed the her on a gurney.
“It was really hard to watch as she was in a really bad way,” the witness said, describing Marais as “clearly distressed”.
“They helped her down the stairs before putting her on the gurney in the ambulance,” the witness said.
“It was a hectic scene.”
Numerous people reportedly witnessed the incident, which occurred near the famous Clovelly to Coogee walking track.
Marais has had a tumultuous few years, with the popular actor signing on and then pulling out of a number of television programs.
In July 2018, Marais checked herself into The Sydney Clinic for a four-week inpatient treatment, missing the Logie Awards at which she was named the country’s most popular TV actress.
Two months later, she pulled out of Nine drama Bad Mothers and cancelled acting commitments for the remainder of the year to focus on her health.
After flying under the radar for a few months, Marais seemed to be in a good place when she took to Instagram in January 2019 to reveal she was feeling happy and healthy.
“Nature, art, family, beauty, strength, healing, self-love … God is everywhere! Bring on 2019,” she wrote.
Then, just months after it was announced she would join the cast of Seven’s resurrected Packed To The Rafters series, Back To The Rafters, she pulled the pin in February citing personal reasons.
“She thanks everyone involved on the show for their ongoing support and love, especially her ‘Rafters family’, and sends them her very best wishes for the production,” Marais’ management, RGM Artists wrote at the time.
Marais is mother to seven-year-old Scout Eadie, her daughter with former partner, actor James Stewart who she met on the set of Packed To The Rafters, the top-rating show which made her a household name.
She has previously spoken publicly of her long history with bipolar disorder.
“I was diagnosed at one point with bipolar. I have developed ways to talk myself down from any ledges I find myself on,” she told a women’s magazine.