Christina Applegate isn’t sugarcoating her experience with multiple sclerosis (MS).
The actress, who revealed her battle with the disease in 2021, bluntly described her unpleasant diagnosis as the “worst thing that’s happened” in her “entire life” during her appearance on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast Monday.
“I have 30 lesions on my brain,” she explained. “My biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot.”
She said that while her vision has not been affected, MS has taken a toll on her mobility. “My hand starts to go weird and then I’ll get a seizure-y feeling sometimes in my brain,” she detailed.
MS is a disease of the nervous system in which the body’s immune system attacks the protective covering around the nerves, which affects the brain’s communication with the rest of the body, per the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Later in the podcast, Applegate, 52, described herself as the “worst MSer” who will go back to bed instead of stretching her muscles when she’s having a bad day with pain. She also described MS as a “mean girl” who will “push back” if she physically exerts herself too much.
“It sucks,” the “Anchorman” actress added. “I hate it so much. I’m so mad about it. You can’t overcome it.”
She also explained that she prefers to speak truthfully about her MS journey because she did not do so when she battled breast cancer. “Everything I was saying was a freaking lie,” she admitted.
“It was me trying to convince myself of something, and I think that did no service to anyone.”
Applegate underwent a double mastectomy in 2008, which removed her breast cancer. In 2017, she had her ovaries and…
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