Christina Applegate continues to get candid about living with multiple sclerosis three years after going public with her diagnosis.
Appearing on Good Morning America Wednesday, the Emmy-winning actor shared that she was likely experiencing symptoms six or seven years before she was formally diagnosed with the disease.
I noticed, especially the first season [of Netflix s Dead to Me ], wed be shooting, and I would buckle. My leg would buckle, she explained. I really just put it off as being tired, or Im dehydrated, or its the weather. Then nothing would happen for months, and I didnt pay attention. But when it hit this hard, I had to pay attention.
Applegate became visibly emotional when sharing the experience of filming the final season of Dead to Me in 2021. Before work on the last spate of episodes began, she noticed tingling on my toes.
By the time shooting on the series commenced, however, she said: I was being brought to set in a wheelchair.
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I couldnt move that far, she added. So I had to tell everybody because I needed help. I needed someone to help me stand, and I needed someone to help me get there.
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