Paloma Faith has opened up about suffering a miscarriage while on the set of the TV series Pennyworth . The singer, 42, who played Bet Sykes in the Batman prequel series, had been seven weeks pregnant when her miscarriage began while filming a choreographed fight scene for the show. Faith said she didn’t tell any of the Pennyworth production team she had begun to bleed because she didn’t want to be sent home from filming.
Writing in The Times , Faith recalled how she couldn’t face explaining the miscarriage to any of the Pennyworth crew, so continued working while bleeding and experiencing increased bowel movements. “I worked. I s***.
I bled. I worked. I s***.
I bled. Filming a fight scene was actually quite helpful. I had somewhere to put my sadness, physically,” she wrote.
Faith revealed Pennyworth staff were told to escort actors to and from the bathroom so they didn’t “wander off” or “take too many breaks”. On the day of her miscarriage, Faith needed to go to the toilet nine times and was chaperoned by a staff member every single time. “Here I was, literally sh***ing myself and bleeding heavily on set while performing the fight of my life, with some young twentysomething waiting outside the cubicle every time,” she said.
The “Can’t Rely on You” singer said she still doesn’t know why she chose not to tell staff on the Pennyworth set she was having a medical emergency. “If I told someone, I knew they would send me home. Everyone is differen.
