Selma Blair Admits She Has A Powerful Bond With Christina Applegate As They Both Battle MS

Selma Blair opened up astir the enslaved she shares with her The Sweetest Thing co-star Christina Applegate as some actresses proceed to conflict multiple sclerosis (MS). “Oh gosh, I’ve known Christina for truthful galore years, we’re truly close, and I’m a fan of hers,” Selma, 50, told Entertainment Tonight astatine the Dancing with the Stars finale connected Nov. 21. “She is an iconic California girl actress of my generation. There has not been 1 happening that she’s done that I haven’t been like, ‘Nailed it,’ and she’s nailing conscionable being who she is with this MS.”

Selma Blair and Christina Applegate astatine ‘The Sweetest Thing’ premiere successful April 2002 (Photo: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

Selma, who has been battling MS since 2018, commended Christina, 50, who just got her star connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which marked the Dead to Me actress’s archetypal nationalist quality since revealing she has MS past year. “She was comic and decidedly similar her performance was amazing,” Selma said astir Christina. “I conscionable wanna witnesser the greats successful my friends’ lives, similar conscionable softly backmost there, and truthful to cognize that I was determination for thing that we dream about erstwhile we’re little.”

The Legally Blonde star besides revealed however Christina supports her amidst their health struggles. “She’s conscionable a beardown one. She really is. She’s specified a nurturer,” Selma explained. “If you request thing she’s astatine your house. There person been things that I had been unglued, and she’s like, ‘I’m outside. Answer the door.’ She’s conscionable astonishing and beardown and fun.”

Selma past explained however she’s been helping retired Christina. “I’m much like, ‘OK, if you request assistance with canes,’ and that stuff, ’cause I’m truly into each of that, similar each the things that assistance me get around, but she’s getting it locked down. She has a batch connected her plate. It’s a lot, but she’s arsenic superb and beauteous arsenic ever,” she said.

Christina Applegate and Selma Blair successful February 2002 (Photo: Russ Einhorn/STAR MAX, Inc./Newscom/The Mega Agency)

Christina revealed her MS diagnosis successful August 2021. She precocious prepped fans for however overmuch the autoimmune illness has changed her successful an interrogation with The New York Times. “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,” said Christina, who took disconnected 5 months from enactment aft the diagnosis. The Emmy Award victor besides shared her frustrations with her wellness battle. “I’m ne'er going to judge this. I’m pissed,” she said.