Christina Applegate now confined to bed as MS conditions decline
Christina Applegate has been confined to her bed amid her battle with MS. The actress, 54, best known for her role sitcom Married...With Children, revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, the chronic disease that impacts the brain and nervous system.
The Dead To Me star has been open and honest about her condition since, and frequently gives updates on her MeSsy podcast. Now, her daughter Sadie, 15, whom Christina has with her husband Martyn LeNoble, has spoken of how she enjoys spending limited time with her mother before getting her back home to be in bed.
She told People: "I want to take her; it’s my favourite thing to do. It’s the only time we have together by ourselves. I tell myself, ‘Just get her there safely and get home so you can get back into bed.’ And that’s what I do."
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Candidly, Christina, who just released new memoir You With The Sad Eyes, added: "My life isn’t wrapped up with a bow. People’s lives, sorry for lack of a better term, f****** suck sometimes. So I’m being as honest and raw as I possibly can.
Christina, who also starred as Rachel Green's (Jennifer Aniston) sister in Friends, previously revealed on her podcast that her condition had left her "screaming in pain" as she lay in bed.
She added: "I can't even pick up my phone sometimes because now it's travelled into my hands, so I'll, like, try to go get my phone or get my remote to turn on the TV or sometimes, I can't even hold them. I can't open bottles now!"
The TV star hosts the podcast with Jamie Lynn Sigler, who also suffers from MS, and has also spoken out about the depressive state the condition has left her in. She said: “I am in a depression right now, which I don't think I've felt for years. Like a real, ---- it all, like real depression where it's kind of scaring me too a little bit because it feels really fatalistic.
“I'm trapped in this darkness right now that I haven't felt like - I don't even know how long, probably 20 something years."
“I did the thing, you know, the television thing. That was like the hardest day of my life. Started at 11 o'clock in the morning and didn't get home until 9.30. I think I slept for two days straight after that. I couldn't even function,” she confessed.
Jamie-Lynn, who was diagnosed with MS more than 20 years ago, offered up some words of encouragement to her pal as Christina sadly revealed she was “giving up”.
“You know me. I'm so like, ‘Well you know this is it. I'm just going to lay in bed and sleep all the time and then when my daughter needs me, I'll be there for her and I'll do everything for her,” she shared, as she told Jamie-Lynn she was going to therapy.
She added: “I see more light in that process for you. I can't let you give up. I can't do it. I need you to do it."
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