Christina Applegate reveals how she got MS diagnosis: It ‘sucked balls’

Beloved actress Christina Applegate has revealed the moment she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, saying it “sucked balls”.

Christina Applegate spoke candidly on Wednesday about the moment she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, saying it “sucked balls”.

The Dead to Me star then asked Kelly Clarkson, “Can I say that?”

The Kelly Clarkson Show host laughed, replying, “You can say whatever the hell you want.”

Applegate, 51, went on to tell Clarkson, 40, about receiving the diagnosis while shooting the third and final season of her Netflix show.

“I found out on a Monday after work that I had MS, a disease I’m gonna have for the rest of my life,” she recalled.

For four years prior to her diagnosis, the actress had been unknowingly experiencing “very small symptoms” of the chronic disease.

The actress' discovery came "on a Monday after work," she told Kelly Clarkson. Picture: YouTube

Applegate used a cane at the unveiling of her Hollywood Walk of Fame star on November 14. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)

“I didn’t know what was happening to me,” she explained. “I couldn’t walk. They had to use a wheelchair to get me to set. I was freaking out. Someone was like, ‘You need an MRI’.”

Applegate revealed her diagnosis in an August 2021 tweet, writing, “a few months ago I was diagnosed with MS. It’s been a strange journey”.

“But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition,” she continued at the time. “It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a**hole blocks it.”

The Married … With Children alum gave the New York Times an update on her condition in November of the following year.

“This is the first time anyone’s going to see me the way I am,” Applegate said of gaining 20kg and walking with a cane.

“I’m never going to accept this,” she admitted to the newspaper. “I’m pissed.”

Christina Applegate as Jen Harding in Dead to Me. Picture: Netflix

Applegate, who is married to Martyn LeNoble and is the mother of daughter Sadie, 11, previously fought breast cancer in 2008.

As she now battles MS, Dead to Me may be one of Applegate’s final acting gigs.

“Jen Harding is … quite possibly the last (character) I’ll play,” the Emmy nominee told Variety last month. “With my disease, I don’t know how capable I am. But this was a gift.”

That same month, however, news broke that Applegate has been cast in the It’s a Wonderful Life online table read on December 11.

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