After becoming a prominent advocate for multiple sclerosis awareness and chronicling her struggles in an emotional memoir published in March, the Emmy-winning actor Christina Applegate has revealed she does not have the debilitating autoimmune disease after all. Applegate, 54, made the stunning announcement in an episode of her podcast MeSsy, recorded with fellow actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, posted to YouTube on Tuesday. Applegate recalled the moment she found out about the misdiagnosis in a visit to her doctor.
I had every symptom of someone with MS. I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor’s office. I can’t walk from the car to the room.
Nothing magical happened when she said, ‘You don’t have MS.’ Nothing magical happened. It’s this weird feeling of like I became this, you and I, the poster children for MS. Everything that I was doing, I had a fucking reason as to why my day sucked every day.
It’s very unnerving and it’s really confusing for me.” Applegate had revealed in 2021 that she was diagnosed with MS. In an interview with People magazine promoting her memoir, titled You With the Sad Eyes, Apple said was largely confined to bed because of her diagnosed condition. She is known for her roles in the TV series Married … with Children and Dead to Me – as well as the films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.
Applegate also worked on the TV show Friends and won a 2002 Emmy for outstanding guest acting in a comedy series. She retired from acting two years after the 2021 MS diagnosis, when she wrapped up her role on Dead to Me.
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