Christina Applegate hits back at ‘plastic surgery’ taunt amid MS battle

Christina Applegate has hit back at a troll who called out her changing appearance amid her ongoing battle with multiple sclerosis.

Christina Applegate has hit back at online trolls. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Christina Applegate slammed a troll who accused her of getting “bad” plastic surgery.

“MS didn’t make you look that way,” the hater wrote, referencing the Dead To Me star’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2021, reports the New York Post.

“A plastic surgeon did,” the message continued. “And you are a scammer and not [Christina] Applegate.”

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She attended the Critic’s Choice Award earlier this week. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association

At the premiere of Bad Moms in 2016. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

The 51-year-old, who posted a screenshot of the message Tuesday on Twitter, replied that the DM “wasn’t nice”.

Applegate went on to tweet, “What is wrong with people. By the way, I laughed.”

Sooooo I made the unfortunate decision to look at some comments on an article from people mag about me and my kids at the CCA.Of course I told her that it wasn’t nice. This was her reply.What is wrong with people. By the way, I laughed. pic.twitter.com/82De0yPi7o

— christina applegate (@1capplegate) January 17, 2023

The interaction came one month after the Emmy winner told the Kelly Clarkson Show audience that she uses humour to “deflect” from her “incredibly hard” MS battle.

“When people see me now as a disabled person, I want them to feel comfortable. That we can laugh about it,” Applegate explained in the December 2022 interview.

She noted that she has been doing “her best” to “get through it”.

The actress brought along her walking stick to see her Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiled in November last year. Picture: Valerie Macon/AFP

Applegate shared her diagnosis in August 2021 and spoke candidly to The New York Times about her changing appearance in November of the following year.

“This is the first time anyone’s going to see me the way I am,” the Golden Globe nominee said before her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, referencing her 18kg weight gain.

“I’m never going to accept this,” she added at the time. “I’m p*ssed.”

Applegate attended the Critics Choice Awards on Monday, her first awards show since her diagnosis.

The Married … With Children alum had her 11-year-old daughter, Sadie, at her side. The duo matched in black.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission