TV VETERAN: Christina Applegate, here at an awards ceremony in January last spring. Photo: VALERIE MACON / AFP / NTB
MS sufferer Christina Applegate (52) says in a new TV interview that she rarely moves outside.
Monday 11 March at 19:19
The film and TV star was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the summer of 2021, and since then his health has deteriorated rapidly.
Last summer, she stated at a TV awards ceremony that the future is uncertain, and that she may never be able to work again.
In a new interview with “Good Morning America”, the 52-year-old tells more about life.
– I live in a kind of hell. This is a bit difficult for my system, she says about appearing in the TV interview.
– I’m not often out, she explains.
Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis usually affects young people, and the average age when it first appears is around 30 years. MS occurs somewhat more frequently among women than among men. According to the Great Medical Encyclopedia, 11,000 people in Norway have MS. is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, where the body’s own immune system attacks tissue in the brain and spinal cord.
EMMY AWARDS: Christina Applegate on stage in Los Angeles January 15. Photo: MARIO ANZUONI / Reuters / NTB
The interview will be broadcast in its entirety on Tuesday, but the TV channel has published a small excerpt X/Twitter.
There, Applegate also talks about how she received a standing ovation on stage during the Emmy Awards in January. At the time, she joked that you “don’t need to clap every time she does something”.
– People say I was so funny, but I don’t even remember what I said. I have no idea what I did either. I was so nervous that I didn’t realize what was happening.
But she felt the love from the audience.
– I felt very loved, and it was beautiful.
Applegate uses a cane, and she just barely managed to finish the third and final season of the Netflix series “Dead To Me” in 2022.
In the new TV interview, she and actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler (42) are interviewed by Robin Roberts (63). Sigler has lived with MS since she was 20 years old.
Applegate has also experienced serious illness in the past. In 2008, she developed breast cancer and had both breasts removed.
The 52-year-old started her career as a teenager, and is otherwise known from, among other things, the role of Kelly Bundy in “Married … with Children (“Our worst years)”. She has also appeared in comedies such as “Bad Moms”, “Anchorman” and “Hall Pass”.
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