During an interview with podcast host Shawn Ryan, actress Gina Carano — who was surprisingly fired by Disney after the second season of the streaming series, “The Mandalorian” — opened up about a previously undisclosed incident involving the tragic miscarriage of her daughter when she was three months pregnant. Carano has gone on to work in several films, including “Terror On The Prairie,” and has sued Disney over her firing — with help from Space X CEO Elon Musk.
When asked about filming with directors Steven Soderbergh and Jon Favreau, Carano shared the heartbreaking story of her miscarriage — and her confusion over whether the procedure to remove her child’s remains was an abortion or not.
“How to find the light again”
She explained about working on those projects, “Yeah, it was amazing. And it was also painful. I had had a miscarriage right before. So between the movie, like, there was a couple months of the movie getting set up, and I was doing the stunts for the movie and had to run to the bathroom and throw up.”
“And long story short, ended up having a miscarriage and never been through that before,” Carano said. “And so I dove into ‘Haywire’ so hard because I was in so much pain and didn’t want to face what was happening with someone who was my boyfriend. But we had no longer been together.”
“So I escaped after we filmed Haywire to Thailand to train, just because that was my place where I’d go get myself collected. And I remember looking in the mirror and not recognizing my eyes,” she continued. “You know, my eyes were dark and sad, and I knew I needed to, you know, get on my knees and really kind of figure out how to find the light again. And it did take years for that to heal, but, yeah, so that was my strange introductory.”
Carano discussed how her time in Thailand was spent in training only to be concussed during a sparring match with an opponent that she had beaten once before. Having a career in Mixed Martial Arts only added to the feeling of despair she felt.
“The doctor told me, no, this is not an abortion”
“How did you come to peace with the— with your miscarriage?” Ryan asked.
She replied, “Realizing that, you know, it was a confusing time because I couldn’t tell if the doctor was telling me what I wanted to hear, like, or needed to hear because the doctor knew my situation, so I was confused if he was telling me the truth or not. And I was supposedly three months along, and there was no heartbeat. And on top of that, there was about three softball sized cysts. And I didn’t realize this. When you look down at my tummy, it was, like, sideways because I was so active and working, and I didn’t understand.”
Carano described a post-surgery experience where she woke up and heard her surgical team laughing about something unrelated, but in her time of grief, it felt harsh to her. She doubted for a time that it was a miscarriage, and wondered if perhaps she had actually had an abortion.
“And I struggled with that because I felt, is that abortion? Is that, you know…? And it tore me to pieces. And I actually woke up on the operating table while right when it happened, like, I felt like that motherly… instinct woke up, and it was like they were all laughing and, like, hanging out like normal surgery,” Carano continued.
“But for me… I was so just heartbroken and didn’t understand if that was an abortion or was it a miscarriage, and… you know, and the doctor told me, no, this is not an abortion. This is, you know, there is no heartbeat, and we have to take those cysts out,” she said. “And that was what was given to me. But it took me a long time to kind of just give that to God….”
The “Deadpool” actress went on to discuss how it took her two years and the help of her family to overcome the grief that she felt due to the loss of her child.
“Right now, I’m seeing such beauty in life and looking back through my life, and understanding and seeing that if people can just hold on past that, there is life,” she said. “There’s life on the other side of failure and embarrassment, and there’s life on the other side of, like, other people’s expectations of you. You know, there’s a beautiful life in the sunset every single day, and there’s a beautiful life in the sunrise.”
This tragic incident still has ramifications for Carano. As the interview wrapped up, Ryan asked about her future. Carano mentioned that she was starting a new project called “Ravency.”
“That’s my business name. Raven was the name I would have called the baby that I lost…” she said, citing the story of Noah as further inspiration.
How pro-abortion rhetoric confuses and hurts women
The pro-abortion lobby has tried to stir up confusion regarding abortions and miscarriages. Like Gina Carano, many families struggle with this message, however, as the two are not the same, even if the instruments utilized may be the same.
The reason for this is that induced abortion is the intentional killing of a preborn child, while miscarriage care is the removal of the remains of an already deceased child. As Live Action News previously noted, “First and foremost, miscarriage treatment is not considered an induced abortion because, though they often use the same types of treatment, induced abortion carries the intent to kill the preborn baby before removing him from his mother’s body, and miscarriage treatment carries the intent to remove a baby who died naturally in the mother’s body.
Carano’s heartfelt story further proves the sanctity of human life and the grief that parents go through is very real.
