Christina Applegate revealed her MS diagnosis in 2021.
Since then, she’s opened up and used her platform to address the reality of a devastating autoimmune disease.
But there were warning signs before her diagnosis.
However, she missed the signs during filming. Due to the grueling hours spent on television production, her symptoms initially appeared like routine fatigue.
Christina Applegate missed the early warning signs
He spoke on Wednesday, December 11th edition. of messy podcastChristina Applegate told co-host Jamie Lynn Sigler and guest Liz Feldman about how she fell into it on the latter’s set. dead to me It should have been a wake-up call.
“I remember falling down that day,” the actress said, recalling when she was filming a running scene in a field.
Looking back, Applegate understands that: So I don’t mean to disappoint everyone, but it really was. ”
In August 2021, Christina Applegate revealed that she has multiple sclerosis (MS).
Sigler published her own MS combat several years ago in January 2016. So it’s their shared podcast.
On the other hand, Feldman dead to me. Its three-season Netflix series (yes, Netflix used to be all three seasons Shaw) was where Applegate began experiencing physical symptoms. However, this was not the case due to the series itself, as they originally assumed.
It wasn’t late – it was MS
“I remember when we were shooting the pilot a few times, you lost your balance,” Feldman told Applegate.
“That was very difficult to understand,” she explained. “Because I remember one time it was really late at night.”
Feldman elaborated, “We were filming for probably 14 or 15 hours…It seemed perfectly natural that someone would collapse.” Admittedly, filming for television, especially, can be really grueling and time consuming.
“It was MS,” Christina Applegate admitted. Still, she continued to work on the Netflix series until season 3, at which point she received her diagnosis.
“I felt that Ms. A was scared, and that Ms. B felt that something was wrong…something in her body wasn’t working the way she wanted it to,” Feldman said. explained. As the creator of the series, she wasn’t sure what to do.
“There’s no handbook for this,” she admitted. “Nothing can compare to any experience I’ve ever had with someone.” So she “always tried to do this.” [Christina Applegate’s] Health comes first in my heart,” they said while filming.
The Netflix series wasn’t as important as Christina Applegate and her health
Applegate praised how Feldman and the show’s staff did their best to accommodate her. At one point, production was halted for a week while she recovered.
“This wouldn’t happen anywhere else, so my gratitude to you, human beings, is amazing, because you are human beings and you should love other human beings,” Apple said. Gates said.
She concluded: “I can’t say…that’s not a normal reaction.” But that’s really how it should be.
