Christina Applegate opens up about suffering from her illness

She wants to break the taboos around multiple sclerosis. Christina Applegate spoke in her podcast MeSsy about the pain his illness causes him. Suffering from this illness since 2021, she regularly talks about her symptoms in the press and in her show, which she co-hosts with actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, also suffering from the disease.

In the latest episode of their podcast, titled The Beauty of the Invisible Disease and posted online on Tuesday, November 5, the 52-year-old actress confided with emotion to the heroine of Sopranosas well as their guest Rory Kandel. “I'm screaming, lying in bed,” Christina Applegate said. Jamie and I have different symptoms – everyone experiences the illness in their own way. I stay lying on my bed screaming. It’s sharp pain, constant pressure.”

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The descent into hell

The star of Dead To Me, whose multiple sclerosis was diagnosed three years ago, had to put her acting career on hold. The autoimmune disease, which affects the nerves and the brain, appears to affect much of his body. “Sometimes I can't even pick up my phone because my hands are now affected,” she said with regret. Before adding: “I try to grab my phone, or the remote control to turn on the television, but I can’t hold them. I can’t even open bottles anymore.”

In this ordeal, Christina Applegate can count on the support of her daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble, 13 years old, herself suffering from postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (STOP). “It’s much easier to understand what she’s going through while also suffering from an illness,” the young girl confided in an episode of MeSsy, on June 25. The mother and daughter seem more united than ever in the face of illness.