Christina Applegate talks about the “extraordinary” pain of MS

Christina Applegate almost made Conan O’Brien cry in the Tuesday episode of her podcast “Conan O’Brien needs a friend”. THE Married … with children Star opened on life with multiple sclerosis, explaining that it rarely leaves the house “following degenerative disease.

Applegate was joined by her podcast Cohost “disorderly”, actress Jamie-Lynn Sign, who also received a diagnosis of MS.

“If people saw what my daily life looked like, they couldn’t do it,” Applegate told O’Brien. “Because I can sometimes don’t do it. It’s really, really hard.”

She then called MS “the worst thing” she has ever crossed: Applegate has been hospitalized more than 30 times because of her symptoms, including numbness, vision changes and muscle weakness.

“I’m going to start crying,” said Applegate, tearing himself apart. “Cry whatever you want, then I’m going to start crying,” replied O’Brien.

Applegate, who received a diagnosis of MS in 2021, added that his former The sweetest thing Costar, Selma Blair, initially encouraged him to consult a doctor after suffering dizzy and numbness in his toes. Blair revealed for the first time his own diagnosis of MS in 2018.

“She said,” Can you please go to the neurologist? “And I said to myself:” There is no way that we both of the same film have ms “,” said Applegate.

At the end of last year, the actress said she started noticing symptoms on the set of her Netflix program Dead for me. On her “Messy” podcast, she revealed that she had fallen in the middle of a scene where she was running in a field.

“Hi, first sign of MS! So, not to drop everyone, but that was there,” said Applegate in a discussion with the creator of the show, Liz Feldman.