Mamie Laverock's family gives hopeful update after When Calls the Heart actress's fall from five-story balcony

The family of When Calls the Heart actress Mamie Laverock, 19, said she is "doing well" and has come through her major surgeries after falling five stories from a hospital balcony walkway in Vancouver, according to updates shared on her GoFundMe page and reported by Deadline and TVInsider. Laverock, who played Rosaleen Sullivan on the long-running Hallmark drama, had been receiving medical care when the fall occurred on May 26.

Her parents, Rob and Nicole Laverock, said in a statement quoted by TVInsider that the family was "devastated, in shock, at this intensely difficult time." The GoFundMe page set up to help the family, which had raised more than $15,000 toward a $25,000 goal as of May 28, described the incident directly: Laverock "was escorted out of a secure unit of the hospital and taken up to a balcony walkway from which she fell five stories."

What led to Laverock being taken to that unit is not established in the sources retrieved. According to Deadline's reporting, Laverock had been rushed to a hospital in her home city by her mother on May 11 following a medical emergency, and was later transferred to the Vancouver facility where the fall occurred on May 26 -- but the underlying medical circumstances that preceded either the May 11 emergency or the May 26 transfer are not detailed in the accounts fetched for this story.

The injuries and treatment

Laverock sustained what her family and outlets covering the story described as life-threatening injuries. She underwent multiple extensive surgeries -- reporting on the surgeries described procedures including two separate 11-hour operations -- and was placed on life support in the days immediately following the fall. Deadline's coverage, citing the family's own updates, said that as of late May she was "doing well" and had come through her "big surgeries."

Industry and co-star response

Hallmark Media, which produces When Calls the Heart, said it was saddened by the news, according to TVInsider's reporting. Co-stars including Erin Krakow and Johannah Newmarch publicly encouraged fans to support the GoFundMe campaign set up on the family's behalf. Laverock had appeared on the series, set in a small Canadian frontier town, since 2014, alongside a cast that also includes Jack Wagner, Kevin McGarry, Andrea Brooks, Kavan Smith, Pascale Hutton and Chris McNally -- several of whom she later reunited with during her recovery, according to later Fox News coverage of her homecoming.

What is still unconfirmed

The available reporting does not establish the medical reason Laverock was under treatment in a secure hospital unit before the fall, nor the full clinical explanation for how she came to be on the balcony walkway unsupervised. Those details were not addressed in the family's public statements as reported by Deadline and TVInsider at the time.

US In News compiled this archived account from contemporaneous coverage by Deadline, TVInsider and Fox News. It restores a story originally published on this site in May 2024; figures are as reported at the time.