Christina Ricci Discussed Having To Work During A Miscarriage, And It's Frustrating

In 2018, Halsey, whose pronouns are she/they, gave a speech at the Blossom Ball in New York, where they recalled having a miscarriage on tour at age 20. "I didn't even know I was pregnant," Halsey, now 30, said, "and I had a miscarriage."

Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for Endometriosis Foundation of America

Despite bleeding, she still decided to go on stage that night after having a frustrating talk with her team. "I remember laying in a bed in a hotel room with a towel between my legs, bleeding and staring at my very young, very scared, very male managers who had no idea what was going on," Halsey recalled. "I remember them looking at me and saying, 'I mean, it’s 33 million impressions, this concert is kind of a big deal.'"

Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images

"So, I had a choice to make in that moment," they continued, "which was, whether I was going to let this experience play out the way it was probably supposed to, or if I was going to get out there and go on that stage, so I took a Percocet and put on an adult incontinence diaper and I wore a long T-shirt that would cover it and I got on stage and I performed in front of about 1,200 screaming teenage girls."

Halsey said the experience made her realize that "part of being a woman and dealing with reproductive health is being treated like you’re not a human" and "like you’re a robot and you’re supposed to wake up every day and get over it." But it also made them feel they could "overcome anything."

Recently, her speech resurfaced on Instagram, with many users getting emotional and sharing their own miscarriage stories in the comments. Christina reposted it on her Instagram story, and in her caption, she suggested she's been in that same frustrating position where she was forced to work "mid miscarriages."

Christina wrote, "QVC and campaign shoots mid miscarriages. So fun being a girl."

While Christina didn't share when it happened or what project it occurred on, she has appeared in dozens of movies, including Sleepy Hollow, Monster, Black Snake Moan, and Yellowjackets, and in campaigns for brands like Ganni, Heaven by Marc Jacobs, and Warby Parker.

Today, she has two kids: son, Freddie, 10, with her ex-husband James Heerdegen, and daughter, Cleopatra, 3, with her current husband Mark Hampton.

BuzzFeed has reached out to reps for Christina for additional comment, but wow, how awful to have to go through such an emotional experience and be unable to take time and grieve because of work commitments. My heart goes out to her and anyone else who has had this experience.