Christina Applegate wants to have ‘shots with Cher’ amid MS battle
Actress Christina Applegate has revealed what she would like to do “with the days I have left,” and one of them is to do “shots with Cher.”
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Christina Applegate is shedding some light on her ongoing battle with multiple sclerosis.
Applegate revealed in an episode of the podcast “MeSsy,” which she co-hosts with fellow actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, that she’s been in and out of urgent care constantly since being diagnosed with MS.
“For three years, since I was diagnosed, I’ve been in the hospital upwards of 30 times,” Applegate, 53, said. “That is unimaginable, OK? They’ve done every test known to man on me, put so much radiation into my body from CT scans to everything else.”
MS, a chronic, autoimmune disease causes the body’s immune system to begin attacking the central nervous system, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, triggering various neurological symptoms.
Applegate shared with co-host Sigler, who also lives with MS, that her hospital visits have stemmed from “throwing up and diarrhea and pain,” and she struggles to use the bathroom without vomiting. Though she says her neurological medical team has told her that is not usually an “MS thing,” the actress said, “I’m sorry, there’s got to be a correlation here.”
The “Dead to Me” actress wants people in healthcare to “stop” being “in a box of like, ‘Well, this is isn’t in the medical books.’ Well, we aren’t in the medical books. We’re human beings.”
Applegate went public with her diagnosis in August 2021, revealing in a post on X that it had been “a strange journey.”
“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 (expletive) blocks it,” she wrote at the time.
Though the cause for MS remains unknown, the disease is believed to be triggered by an environmental factor in a person with a genetic predisposition to respond, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. reports. Most people are diagnosed between ages 20 and 50, and women are two to three times more likely to receive the diagnosis.
Other celebrities who have dealt with or are living with MS include Joan Didion, Montel Williams, Clay Walker, Jack Osbourne and Teri Garr.
Contributing: Naledi Ushe, Hannah Yasharoff
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