Christina Applegate got dressed up for a nighttime retired astatine the Screen Actors Guild Awards connected Feb. 26. The actress, who is nominated astatine the awards ceremony, deed the reddish carpet wearing a velvet blazer formal with a agelong train. She walked down the carpet with a cane to assistance her pursuing her aggregate sclerosis diagnosis. Christina was joined by her 12-year-old daughter, Sadie, astatine the event.
In 2022, Christina starred successful the 3rd and last play of her Netflix show, Dead To Me. Her information astatine the SAG Awards is for Outstanding Performance by an Actress successful a Comedy Series for her relation arsenic Jen Harding successful the series. Her show arsenic Jen Harding has been nominated successful this class 2 different times astatine the SAG Awards, but Christina has yet to instrumentality location the win. This year, she’s up against Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary), Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) and Jean Smart (Hacks).
Christina announced that she had been diagnosed with aggregate sclerosis (MS) successful August 2021. Filming for the 3rd play of Dead To Me was postponed pursuing the diagnosis. Christina went connected to movie the full 3rd season, but admitted that it was incredibly hard for her. Ahead of the SAG Awards, she revealed that this was apt her past acting role, owed to the toll that the illness has taken connected her body. That makes the SAGs the last awards amusement that Christina volition apt be arsenic an actor.
“It’s benignant of a large deal,” Christina admitted to the Los Angeles Times. “Right now, I couldn’t ideate getting up astatine 5 a.m. and spending 12 to 14 hours connected a set. I don’t person that successful met astatine this moment.” However, that doesn’t mean her vocation successful Hollywood is over. The histrion has plans to proceed moving amidst her wellness issues by “doing a s*** ton of voiceovers to marque immoderate currency to marque definite that my daughter’s fed and we’re homed,” she revealed.
Although Christina coiled up successfully filming the last play of Dead To Me, she had a pugnacious clip watching it back. “I don’t similar seeing myself struggling,” she shared. “Also, I gained 40 pounds due to the fact that of inactivity and medications. I didn’t look similar myself and I didn’t consciousness similar myself. At immoderate point, I was capable to region myself from my ain ego and recognize what a beauteous portion of tv it was.”
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