Christina Applegate’s 13-year-old daughter receives her own health diagnosis following her mother’s battle with MS

Christina Applegate’s daughter explains how she is able to understand her mother’s illness.

The former “Married… With Children” star’s daughter Sadie, 13, was this week’s guest on her mother’s podcast, “MeSsy,” which she hosts with fellow actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler. During the podcast, Sadie revealed that she had been diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

“When my mom says, ‘I’m in pain right now. I’m shaking.’ If I didn’t have POTS, I would probably be like…I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I actually have tremors because of POTS,” Sadie said. “It’s definitely a lot easier to understand what she’s going through when I’m going through something too.”

According to the Cleveland Clinic, POTS occurs when a person experiences dizziness, fatigue, rapid heart rate, headaches, chest pain, and many other symptoms, “immediately or within minutes of sitting or standing.” This is the result of the body’s abnormal response to hormones that are supposed to help blood return to the heart.

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Sadie also explained that she suffers from misophonia, which is an extreme sensitivity to sound. Misophonia can cause extreme discomfort, to the point of eliciting an emotional or physical response from the individual. “My two worst ones are breathing and chewing,” Sadie explained.

When Applegate was first diagnosed, Sadie said her mother found unique ways for her to “understand the pain of walking,” explaining, “she made us put socks on with sand.”

The teenager’s experience with her own health problems has made her more sensitive to her mother’s health problems, with Sadie taking every opportunity to try to help her mother, even when her help is not always sought.

“Every time we go to a concert, she’s always like, ‘You can’t push my wheelchair, Sadie, you’re going to hit a wall,'” she said. “And I’ll beg. I’m just like, ‘Please, Mom, let me push your wheelchair.’ Because I want to help her, so that’s definitely why I want to do it, but it’s also funny because she’s always like, ‘No, I want this person to do it’… and it’s never me.”

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Applegate admitted that her daughter is “very good at pushing the wheelchair,” but the former “Dead to Me” star’s hesitation to allow her to help comes from fear that Sadie might let go of the wheelchair while she was on a ramp, “because (she) found it funny.”

Although Sadie understands to some extent what her mother is going through, Applegate admits to feeling “incredibly guilty” for not being able to do the things she would like to do for her daughter.

“Because I never want you to feel like I’m not capable of being your protector, your mother, you know, I love you,” she told her daughter. “I want to make you food. I want to bring it to you. I want to do all the things and I do it when I can. And I feel incredibly guilty when I can’t.”

The actress was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in June 2021, while filming the final season of “Dead to Me.” She has been very open about what life with this diagnosis has meant for her, recently saying on the podcast: “I don’t like living. I do not like it. I don’t enjoy things anymore. »

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The comment sparked concern among her fans, prompting her to respond in a later episode of the podcast by stating, “I’m fine. »

“I challenge anyone to be diagnosed with MS or any other type of chronic illness that has destroyed the person you were before that moment and say, ‘This is awesome,'” she said. “You know? No, you have moments where you’re like, ‘This is tiring and I don’t want to do this.’ But you do it, and by having friends like you and my beautiful friends saying that out loud, it takes the pressure off the ball.”

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