Christina Applegate shares what she hopes to do with the ‘days she has left’ as she battles MS

Christina Applegate has shared a heartbreaking confession as she bravely battles MS and shares her journey with the world.

Christina Applegate has opened up about the “days she has left” alive as she battles MS.

The actress, who revealed her battle with the disease in 2021, has shared what she still hopes to achieve in her life before the disease makes it impossible.

“There are things I want to do with the days I have left in life,” Applegate wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.

“I want to work with Shirley MacLaine. And do shots with Cher! And yes my days are so big. Just saying.”

Christina Applegate first shared her MS diagnosis in 2021 and she’s been public with her journey ever since. Picture: Binge

“I wish I could work with Shirley,” she continued. “That’s all. Woke up and that dream I have had for my whole life, washed over me. And I wept for a minute. And I’m sure I will again. Oh and Shirley, I don’t have your number anymore so.”

Applegate’s confession comes nearly three years after she announced she was diagnosed with MS.

“Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with MS,” Applegate confirmed on Twitter in August 2021.

“It’s been a strange journey. But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a — hole blocks it.

:As one of my friends that has MS said ‘We wake up and take the indicated action’. And that’s what I do. So now I ask for privacy. As I go through this thing.”

Christina Applegate, a cast member in "Bad Mums," poses at the premiere of the film at the Mann Village Theatre on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

In March of this year, the actress shared some tough insight into her current health.

“I have 30 lesions on my brain,” she explained on the Armchair podcast “My biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot.”

She said that while her vision has not been affected, MS has taken a toll on her mobility.

“My hand starts to go weird and then I’ll get a seizure-y feeling sometimes in my brain,” she detailed.

MS is a disease of the nervous system in which the body’s immune system attacks the protective covering around the nerves, which affects the brain’s communication with the rest of the body, per the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

Later in the podcast, Applegate described herself as the “worst MSer” who will go back to bed instead of stretching her muscles when she’s having a bad day with pain. She also described MS as a “mean girl” who will “push back” if she physically exerts herself too much.

“It sucks,” the Anchorman actress added. “I hate it so much. I’m so mad about it. You can’t overcome it.”

She also explained that she prefers to speak truthfully about her MS journey because she did not do so when she battled breast cancer.

“Everything I was saying was a freaking lie,” she admitted.

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