Christina Applegate opens up about her recent MS relapse admitting thinking her ‘legs were done’ after being in so much pain
Christina Applegate talks about a recent relapse from multiple sclerosis (MS), which left her in so much pain that she thought her legs were done.
The 52-year-old actress and her boyfriend Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also suffers from MS, recently started a podcast called Messy where they discuss their struggles.
The Married With Children star opened up about a recent MS relapse, describing “intense pain in my legs” and “not being able to walk to the bathroom without feeling like I’m going to fall.”
Applegate’s representatives confirmed this People that the relapse happened a few months ago, when the episode was filmed, and that she is no longer having a relapse.
She added: ‘Insane tingling with just tingles that are weird coming down from my ass.’
Christina Applegate talks about a recent relapse from multiple sclerosis (MS), which left her in so much pain that she thought her legs were done.
The 52-year-old actress and her boyfriend Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also suffers from MS, recently started a podcast called MeSsy, where they discuss their struggles
The Married With Children star opened up about a recent MS relapse, describing “intense pain in my legs” and “not being able to walk to the bathroom without feeling like I’m going to fall.”
The Dead to Me star went on to say that the relapse even affected her sleeping habits quite drastically.
“I haven’t slept for 24 hours because my eye is doing this weird thing where every time I close my eye to go to sleep, my right eye starts shifting like this,” she said.
‘I’m a little worried about that. And my legs have never been this bad, so I don’t know what’s going on,” she continued.
‘There, no energy. Legs just finished. I’m not getting any circulation. I can’t make them stop hurting,” she said, adding that she would see a doctor about it.
Sigler – who revealed in 2016 that she was diagnosed with MS when she was just 20 – said: ‘Sometimes you can do the right things, but it doesn’t solve the problem.’
Applegate admitted, “So then you do all the wrong things, and you just lie in a dark room watching TV and you want it all to go away. And that’s kind of where I am now.”
The actress also said that she returned from vacation, but came home when a “deep depression” set in.
“I’m going to be honest with you. I need to buy shares of Cottonelle because I haven’t showered in three weeks because I can’t stand in the shower. There’s no way I can get in the shower,” she said.
The Dead to Me star went on to say that the relapse even affected her sleeping habits quite drastically
“I haven’t slept for 24 hours because my eye is doing this weird thing where every time I close my eye to go to sleep, my right eye starts shifting like this,” she said.
She added that the Cottonelle was used to fill the bench in her shower because it was too hard to sit on
She added that the Cottonelle was used to fill the bench in her shower because it was too hard to sit on.
Applegate previously revealed on Dax Shepard’s armchair expert podcast she has, ’30 lesions in my brain. My biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot.”
The longtime artist, who was diagnosed with MS in 2021, called the condition the “worst thing that happened” in her “whole life.”
Applegate’s vision is still intact, but she described another side effect she experiences.
“My hand starts to feel strange and sometimes I get a feeling of attack in my brain,” she said.