Christina Applegate says she experienced MS symptoms long before diagnosis

Christina Applegate continues to be candid about living with multiple sclerosis three years after going public with her diagnosis.

Appearing in “Good morning americaOn Wednesday, the Emmy-winning actress shared that she was likely experiencing symptoms “six or seven years” before she was formally diagnosed with the disease.

“I realized, especially in the first season (of Netflix’s ‘Dead to Me’), that we were filming and I was sinking. “My leg was bending,” she explained. “I really put it off because I’m tired, or I’m dehydrated, or it’s the weather. Then nothing happened for months and I didn’t pay attention. But when it was so loud, I had to pay attention.”

Applegate became visibly emotional as she shared the experience of filming the final season of “Dead to Me” in 2021. Before work began on the final batch of episodes, she noticed “a tingling in her toes.”

However, when filming for the series began, she said, “I was wheeled onto the set in a wheelchair.”

“I couldn’t go that far,” he added. So I had to tell everyone because I needed help. “I needed someone to help me up and I needed someone to help me get there.”

Watch Christina Applegate’s interview on “Good Morning America” below.

Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a chronic autoimmune disease that disrupts communication between the body and the brain. Symptoms include tremors, fatigue, vision loss, slurred speech, and weakness in the extremities.

Applegate once again credited her “Sweetest Thing” co-star Selma Blair, who was diagnosed with MS in 2018, for urging her to get tested.

“I said, ‘Really? The odds? Both from the same movie? Come on, that doesn’t happen to two people,” she said. “If it wasn’t for her, it could have been a lot worse.”

Since publicly addressing her diagnosis, Applegate has become an outspoken advocate for people with MS. She and “The Sopranos” actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has the disease, are co-hosts. from a new podcast“MeSsy,” in which they promise to become “vulnerable to the obstacles that life can present,” including MS.

However, that doesn’t mean Applegate has fully accepted his condition.

“I’m never going to wake up and say, ‘This is amazing.’ I’m just going to tell you that,” she said. “I wake up and remember it every day. So that’s not going to happen. But it might get to a place where it works a little better.”