Christina Applegate candidly reveals she wears diapers amid ongoing multiple sclerosis battle

Actress Christina Applegate is not shying away from the reality of what it is really like to live with multiple sclerosis.

Christina Applegate shares candid health update amid MS battle. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Christina Applegate candidly shared that she wears nappies while battling multiple sclerosis.

The Dead to Me star and her close pal Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has MS, were asked about the challenges that come with having the auto-immune disease during a joint interview with People published Wednesday.

“Well, you pee … in your pants,” Applegate responded. “Because you probably can’t get to the bathroom in time. So yeah, diapers.”

The magazine reported that the Married… with Children star – who was diagnosed with MS in 2021 but said on Good Morning America this week that she “probably had it for six or seven years” prior – yanked down the waistband of her jeans to reveal she was wearing a nappy adorned with a floral design during the interview.

Christina Applegate says she now wears diapers in her ongoing battle with MS. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Sigler, who revealed in 2016 that she was diagnosed with MS when she was 20, chimed in that she is not a fan of the options for nappy designs.

“We have a bone to pick with the designers, because who wants a beautiful flower on your diaper? It should really say ‘F**k my life,’” she joked.

Applegate, 52, and The Sopranos star, 42, clearly like to stay positive about their condition, as they hilariously pointed out some of the “benefits” of having MS.

Applegate is best known for her role on Married With... Children. Picture: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

The actress in 2022 when she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Picture: Valerie Macon/AFP

“First of all, parking is awesome,” the Samantha Who? star said, to which Sigler agreed, “There could be a cure for MS, and I will not give up my handicap placard. We earned it!”

Applegate also shared that having “wheelchair seating,” getting to board airplanes early and being pushed around airports is “awesome.”

“But I put my hat down. I’m embarrassed,” the Big Sky star added of being pushed in a wheelchair at an airport.

Applegate agreed, “I wear a mask. I don’t let people see.”

In recent years, the actresses have turned to each other while coping with the hardships of the disease and formed a moving bond over their shared struggles.

The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler also lives with MS after being diagnosed at just 20 years old. Picture: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Sigler with the Sopranos co-stars Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco and James Gandolfini. Picture: Evan Agostini/Getty Images

“We’re in two very different places with MS, but we help each other. Christina opened me up,” Sigler shared. “I didn’t realise how desperately I needed to stop trying to be perfect. One thing I haven’t done in the last 23 years is admit it was hard, because I didn’t want to let anyone down.”

Applegate, who called her battle “sh***y,” noted that she can be completely honest with Sigler because they know the same pain.

“She’s the only person who really knows me,” she said. “I can talk about anything with her. Constipation, diarrhoea … Bravo TV.”

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission