IRISH ACTRESS RUTH Codd has said she is living “a new normal” after undergoing a second leg amputation. 

The 29-year-old had one leg amputated when she was 23, following an injury she sustained while playing football aged 15 that did not heal properly.

She revealed that she had undergone a second below knee amputation last November. 

Speaking on The Late Late Show last night, Codd said it was “a hard decision” but one that she had to make.

“I could have done without it, you know what I mean?” she told host Patrick Kielty. “But it was the same situation as the first.”

She said she underwent 11 surgical procedures, with the final one being the amputation. 

“A lot of times, people say to me, ‘Oh, well you chose it. It was your choice’, because it was an elective amputation. But surgeons just don’t go chopping off limbs willy-nilly.

“It was the only way for my quality of life to improve, and I’m not willing to spend my entire life in a hospital bed for the sake of keeping a leg that doesn’t work.”

Asked how her recovery was going, Codd said: “Well I walked on there tonight.”

The Wexford actress said she was getting used to a “new normal”, which involved learning to walk again and getting back into horse-riding.

“I’m not going to say that my life is the same. It’s different, but in a good way, I think.”

Codd also spoke about her stint as a contestant on the UK’s Celebrity Traitors. 

“I think I watched the show and I thought it was such a cool concept. I’m not going to lie, I did think the celebrity version would be a bit softer,” she said, adding that it didn’t really work out that way.

Codd was a faithful on the popular reality show, but was the third player chosen to be ‘murdered’ by traitors Cat Burns, Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr – who went on to win. 

As an actress, Codd has starred in Netflix mystery thriller series The Midnight Club, and the streaming platform’s horror mini-series The Fall Of The House Of Usher.

Her career began on TikTok, where she began posting comedic nun videos during the Covid pandemic, amassing more than 20 million likes in a year, having lost her job as a professional make-up artist and barber.