Share her journey. Christina Applegate announced her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in August 2021 and has been candid about how the disease has affected her life ever since.
“Hello friends. A few months ago, I was diagnosed with MS,” he said Married… With Children alum wrote via Twitter at the time. “It was a strange journey. But I have been supported by people I know who also have this condition. It has been a difficult road. But as we all know, the road is moving forward. Unless there are holes in the way.
He continued: “As one of my friends with MS said, ‘We wake up and take action as shown’. And that’s what I did. So now I ask for privacy. When I go through this thing. Thank you xo.”
A native of California The sweetest costar Selma Blair, who also suffer from demyelinating disease, quickly provide support. “Love you always. Always here. Like our children. Beat us with love,” the Cruel Intentions the actress wrote via Twitter.
According to the National MS Society, the disease affects the brain, spinal cord and optic nerve. Symptoms may include numbness, tingling, pain, weakness, memory problems, mood changes, blindness and paralysis. Applegate – who welcomed daughter Sadie in 2011 with her husband, Martin LeNoble — to The New York Times if in retrospect, there are warning signs of illness.
“I wish I had paid attention,” he said during a November 2022 conversation with the outlet. “But who do I know?”
After the Anchor actress received a life-changing diagnosis, production for season 3 of her Netflix series Die for Me stopped for five months.
“There’s a sense of, ‘Well, let’s get him some medicine so he can get better,'” Samantha Who? alum to the NOW. “And there’s nothing better. But it’s good for me. I have to process the loss of my life, the loss of that part. So, I need that time.”
Applegate added that finishing the show was the hardest thing to do, but she felt it had to happen.
“I have an obligation [the series creator] Liz [Feldman] and for Linda [Cardellini], for our story. The powers that be are like, ‘Let’s stop it. We don’t need to finish it. Let’s put some episodes together. I said, ‘No. We’ll do it, but we’ll do it on my terms,'” he said.
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