Christina Applegate revealed her MS diagnosis in 2021.
She has since used her platform to open up and get real about the devastating autoimmune disease.
But there were warning signs before she was diagnosed.
But she missed the signal while filming. Because of the grueling hours involved in making television, her symptoms initially seemed like everyday fatigue.
Christina Applegate Missed Early Warning Signs
In an interview conducted on Wednesday, December 11th crummy On the podcast, Christina Applegate told co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler and guest Liz Feldman about how she fell in love with the latter’s set. dead to me It should have been a wake-up call.
“I remember falling that day,” the actress said, recalling what happened while filming a running scene in a field.
Looking back, Applegate understood this: “Hello, these are the first signs of MS! So I’m not trying to disappoint everyone, but I was there.”
In August 2021, Christina Applegate revealed that she suffers from multiple sclerosis (MS).
Sigler went public with his MS battle a few years ago, in January 2016. So it became a shared podcast.
Meanwhile, Feldman dead to me. A three-season Netflix series (yes, Netflix all three seasons show) was where Applegate began experiencing physical symptoms. However, it’s not because of the series itself, as both initially assumed.
It wasn’t late, it was MS.
“I remember losing my balance a few times when we were shooting the pilot,” Feldman told Applegate.
“It was very difficult to figure it out, because I remember it was really late at night one time,” she explained.
Feldman elaborated: “We were probably filming for 14 or 15 hours. It seemed completely reasonable that anyone would fall apart.” Yes, filming, especially TV filming, can be a really brutal time.
“It was MS,” Christina Applegate admits. Despite this, she continued to work on the Netflix series until its third season, at which point she received her diagnosis.
“Person A was scared, and Person B could sense something was wrong,” Feldman explained. As a series creator, she wasn’t sure what to do.
“There is no handbook for this,” she admitted. “Nothing compares to any experience I’ve had with anyone before.” So she “always tried to put (Christina Applegate’s) health first” when filming.
The Netflix series wasn’t as important as Christina Applegate and her health.
Applegate praised how Feldman and the show’s crew went above and beyond to accommodate her. At one point, production was shut down for a week while she recovered.
“This won’t happen anywhere else,” Applegate said. “So my appreciation for you being human is amazing because you have to be human and you have to love other human beings.”
She concluded: “I can’t even tell you… that’s not a normal reaction.” But it really should be.