Comedian Aisling Bea is rushed to hospital after slicing through her finger with a bread knife

Comedian Aisling Bea has been rushed to hospital after slicing through her finger with a bread knife. 

The TV star, 42, took to Instagram to share a snap of herself sitting in A&E as she showed off her finger wrapped in a huge bandage.

Looking upset in the snap, Aisling added that she had to get stitches on her finger following the gruesome accident at home.

Captioning her post, she penned: 'I sliced through my finger with a bread knife and had to go to A&E to get stitches for kneady b*****s.'

A second photo showed a close-up of her injured hand, with the standup comic writing: 'A lot of nurses on here thought my finger was infected but it turned out that's simply "just the colour of me".' 

This isn't the first time Aisling has suffered a painful injury.

Last year she recalled the moment she watched her shoulder dislocate from her arm. 

The actress didn't realise the severity of her injury and suffered excruciating migraines for three years, before requiring reconstruction surgery. 

Aisling appeared on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with the National Lottery on Virgin Radio in January 2025 and talked about the nasty setback as she promoted her film Get Away. 

'We do all the fight scenes. My stunt story is that I was knocked down during the pandemic and I had a terrible shoulder injury which I thought was kind of healing, but I was getting terrible migraines for about three years,' she said. 

'I went to the screening last night and it turns out my shoulder came off my arm while we were filming. 

'It was like getting weaker and weaker and I was getting way more migraines while we were filming. 

'But last night we went to the screening in the cinema and I could see the moment and it wasn't exactly the character's eyes anymore.

'I could see the moment in my face, of me going, "Oh… That's not good". It was just from a very simple lift of an arm. So then I had to get shoulder reconstruction.'

Aisling added: 'They actually did a shoulder reconstruction, which didn't work because I got pregnant straight away like an idiot. But I got the screw taken out while I was pregnant. And it's just like a little Ikea screw. I have it in my kitchen and the baby uses it as a rattler in the test tube.' 

Aisling also spoke about her then five-month-old daughter, tipping her to be a 'big star'.

In August 2024, the actress welcomed her first child with her boyfriend Jack Freeman.  

She said: 'My boyfriend is very much a musician, so we have a lot of music in the house which is really helping the baby actually. The baby sings now.

'We've become absolute lunatics. I think she wants to go to bed at night for so long because she's sick of the two of us, because we're like [sings], "Mama, I love you". She's like "waaahh" - she's started singing away. I think she's going to be a big star.'