The actress shared her gruesome injury (Picture: CEN/Instagram)
Raised By Wolves star Loulou Taylor has revealed her grim injuries after she was bitten by a seal ‘six times’ while swimming at a beach in South Africa.
The actress who played Cassia in the HBO Max sci-fi drama series before its cancellation last year, was swimming at Clifton Beach in Cape Town, when the animal came onshore.
Footage showed excited beachgoers react to its appearance however elation turned to fear as the mammal began to bite people.
As the seal returned to the water, it bit Taylor several times, with the star earlier oblivious to its presence and the on-shore commotion as worried punters yelled for people to ‘get out of the water’.
In a video obtained by the New York Post, a screaming Taylor was seen fighting off the seal before others rushed out into the ocean to her rescue, with a man tossing the seal back into the ocean after everyone was safe on the sand.
Sharing footage of her bloody finger with a visible gash, the star issued a warning to other beachgoers to remain vigilant as she wrote she was ‘bitten 6 times, requiring an ER visit and strong antibiotics’.
The actor urged other people to be careful in the area (Picture: CEN)
Taylor said that she was bitten six times (Picture: CEN)
Taylor shared: ‘Be careful swimming at Clifton!
‘I was attacked by a seal in the water and bitten six times, requiring an ER visit and strong antibiotics. They have big teeth! Thank you [to] those who helped me in and out of the water.’
The South Africa-born and LA-raised actress – who was part of Raised By Wolves before it was cancelled after two seasons in June 2022 – also posted an image riffing on the iconic Jaws movie poster, which saw the shark replaced by a seal below the swimmer on top of the water.
Despite the attack and her injuries, though, Taylor hasn’t been perturbed by the ocean and its wildlife.
She wrote: ‘Thank you to the artist and another thank you to the men who rescued me. I still love the ocean and all of its animals.’
According to Brett Glasby, programme coordinator at the Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation, the seal’s attack may have been triggered by an algae bloom in South African waters that caused the release of toxins, telling local paper the Daily Maverick there had been a spike in seal attacks since December.
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The star issued a warning to other beachgoers to remain vigilant.
