Christina Applegate Reveals She Gained 40 Lbs. After MS Diagnosis & Admits She’s ‘Never Going To Accept’ The Disease

Christina Applegate, 50, opened up about her aggregate sclerosis diagnosis in an interrogation with The New York Times published Nov. 1. “This is the archetypal clip anyone’s going to spot maine the mode I am,” said Christina, who was informed of her diagnosis portion filming the third and last season of her Netflix acheronian drama Dead To Me. “I enactment connected 40 pounds; I can’t locomotion without a cane. I privation radical to cognize that I americium precise alert of each of that,” she added.

Christina Applegate astatine the 2020 SAG Awards (Photo: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Christina took 5 months disconnected aft learning she had MS, an autoimmune illness which causes the assemblage to devour distant astatine its ain nervus tissue. “There was the consciousness of, ‘Well, let’s get her immoderate medicine truthful she tin get better,’ ” she told the NYT. “And determination is nary better. But it was bully for me. I needed to process my nonaccomplishment of my life, my nonaccomplishment of that portion of me. So I needed that time.” Christina besides said, “I’m ne'er going to judge this. I’m pissed.”

The Emmy Award victor yet resumed filming Dead To Me and wrapped accumulation connected the show, which returns Nov. 17. “I had an obligation,” she explained. “The powers that beryllium were like, ‘Let’s conscionable stop. We don’t request to decorativeness it. Let’s enactment a fewer episodes unneurotic [with antecedently recorded footage].’ I said, ‘No. We’re going to bash it, but we’re going to bash it connected my terms.’ ”

Christina Applegate astatine the Tribeca Film Festival successful April 2016 (Photo: Abel Fermin/Shutterstock)

“If radical hatred it, if radical emotion it, if each they tin ore connected is, ‘Ooh, look astatine the cripple,’ that’s not up to me,” Christina further said astir play 3 of the amusement that besides stars Linda Cardellini. “I’m definite that radical are going to be, like, ‘I can’t get past it.’ Fine, don’t get past it, then. But hopefully radical tin get past it and conscionable bask the thrust and accidental goodbye to these 2 girls,” she added. Christina besides confirmed that determination were subtle signs of MS specified arsenic equilibrium issues portion she was filming play 1 of Dead to Me, but she brushed the issues disconnected and thought thing of it. “I privation I had paid attention. But who was I to know?” she said.

The Married…with Children alum announced her diagnosis via Twitter successful Aug. 2021. “A fewer months agone I was diagnosed with MS. It’s been a unusual journey,” Christina wrote astatine the time. “But I person been truthful supported by radical that I cognize who besides person this condition. It’s been a pugnacious road. But arsenic we each know, the roadworthy keeps going. Unless immoderate a**hole blocks it. As 1 of my friends with MS said, ‘We aftermath up and instrumentality the indicated action.’ And that’s what I do. So present I inquire for privacy. As I spell done this thing. Thank you xo.”