Actor Christina Applegate, best known for Dead To Me, The Sweetest Thing and Anchorman, revealed she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2021. And she's been nothing but honest about her experience of it.
"With the disease of MS, it’s never a good day. You just have little sh*tty days," she told Vanity Fair.
"People are like, 'Well, why don’t you take more showers?'. Well, because getting in the shower is frightening. You can fall, you can slip, your legs can buckle. Especially because I have a glass shower. It’s frightening to me to get in there. There are just certain things that people take for granted in their lives that I took for granted.
"Going down the stairs, carrying things – you can’t do that anymore. It f*cking sucks. I can still drive my car short distances. I can bring up food to my kid. Up, never down."
Applegate was inspired to share what living with MS is really like after fellow actors with the condition told her, "I have friends who are actresses who have MS and they’ve said, 'I wish someone had told me back at the beginning to say, I need this. I need these boundaries'."
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