Christina Applegate keeps being really honest about her fight against multiple sclerosis. The 52-year-old actress from “Dead to Me” shared on the “Armchair Expert” podcast with hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman that she’s always in pain because of the autoimmune disease. She said, “I have 30 spots on my brain. The biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot.”
Christina Applegate attends the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on Jan. 15, 2023.
Christina Applegate, who was in the show “Married … With Children,” also said that sometimes her hand starts feeling strange, and then she gets a feeling like she might have a seizure in her brain.
Applegate has been very open about her experience with MS ever since she was diagnosed in 2021. She mentioned that she noticed one symptom of the disease seven years before she was officially diagnosed.
Actors from “Married … With Children” Applegate (from left), Katey Sagal, Ed O’Neill and David Faustino pose at the ceremony that honored Sagal with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But now, Applegate confesses that she wasn’t honest about her breast cancer diagnosis in 2008. She admitted to Shepard and Padman that she was “lying” during that period. She said, “Everything I was saying was a lie. I was trying to convince myself of something, and I think that didn’t help anyone.” Although Applegate is grateful that her story helped raise money for breast cancer prevention, she revealed that she was actually “crying every night” at home during her treatments.
Applegate and her daughter, Sadie Grace LeNoble, at the 75th Emmy Awards on Jan. 15 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
“I wish I had said that,” said Applegate, who had both breasts removed after being diagnosed with cancer. “I didn’t like my breasts. I still don’t like them. It’s terrible.”
Recently, the “Hall Pass” star emphasized that she didn’t use a weight loss drug like Ozempic to shed the weight she gained after her diagnosis. She was hospitalized several times for her symptoms, and doctors didn’t know what was causing them at the time.
The cast of “Married … With Children” in 1994.
“But we’re pretty sure my stomach and my intestines don’t get along well. It makes me hurt a lot and throw up,” Applegate told People magazine.
“I gained 45 pounds when I was diagnosed, because of steroids and not being able to move much. My body just doesn’t feel right. And I’ve lost over 30 pounds,” she continued.
“People ask me, ‘What’s your secret?’ And I say, ‘Throwing up.’ Not Ozempic. Vomiting.”
