Passing through The Kelly Clarkson Show Last Thursday via videoconference, Christina Applegate opened up about her new journey with multiple sclerosis. The star of dead to me shared his reaction to his diagnosis, received in 2021, while filming the final season of the hit Netflix series, Dead to Me.
“Turn dead to me was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life,” she told Kelly Clarkson. I was diagnosed during filming and I didn’t know what was happening to me. I couldn’t walk. They had to use a wheelchair to move me around the set. I panicked until someone said, “You need magnetic resonance.”
She discovered the following Monday, after work, that she had multiple sclerosis. “A disease that I will have for the rest of my life,” she added. And then I started thinking about the last four years where I had very little symptoms. »
The 50-year-old actress, who remembered having often felt tired during filming, wanted to emphasize the importance of paying attention to our bodies.
She also explained that there are different types of multiple sclerosis, coming with different symptoms, harder or easier days, different for each person who suffers from it.
“Can I say it? It really sucks!” the actress told Clarkson about when she first received the news of her illness, in August 2021. The production of dead to me had then been interrupted for several months to allow him to begin his treatments.
The actress originally announced the news of her illness on Twitter, writing, “Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with MS. It was a strange trip. But I have been so supported by people I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road goes on. Unless some asshole blocks it.”
Last November, Applegate made his first public appearance since announcing his diagnosis at his Hollywood ceremony. walk of fame where she received her famous star.
Sitting, supported by the one who played the role of her mother in the series Married with Children, Katy Segal, or with the help of a cane, the actress delivered a heartfelt and moving speech. She did not address her illness until the end of her speech, under the guise of humor.
“Oh, by the way, I have a disease, she joked. Didn’t you notice? I don’t wear shoes! Either way, you’re supposed to laugh about it!”
The star of Anchor man has fought many health battles, including beating breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy in 2008 and also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in 2017 to prevent ovarian cancer.