Christina Applegate says actor urged her to get checked after recognising main MS symptom

Christina Applegate has revealed that she was urged to get checked for a number of sclerosis by one other Hollywood star who’d observed her exhibiting one main symptom.

A number of sclerosis (MS) is a lifelong well being situation which impacts the mind and spinal twine and causes ache, imaginative and prescient issues and numbness within the physique. It is presently unclear what causes MS and there’s no treatment for it.

Applegate, finest identified for her roles in Married… With Youngsters and Lifeless to Me, Applegate was recognized with the neurodegenerative illness again in 2021.

Opening up on her early expertise with the illness throughout a brand new interview with Conan O’Brien’s Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the 53-year-old revealed it was really one other movie star who realised her signs might be MS.

When requested about her preliminary expertise with MS, Applegate revealed her first signs have been numbness within the toes, which occurred in January 2021.

“My toes weren’t feeling proper,” she defined, including: “Finally, over these months it grew from my toes to my ankles… from my knees down.

“I used to be shedding steadiness [and] the ache was extraordinary. Once I say numb it is numb however it hurts.”

Applegate then revealed the push to go to a neurologist about her signs got here from Legally Blonde star Selma Blair. Like Applegate, Blair additionally has MS, having been recognized in 2018.

Recalling her response to Blair’s observations, she mentioned: “I used to be like ‘No, there isn’t any means the each of us from the identical film have MS.”

Applegate’s analysis would not come till afterward, when she needed to pause filming for Lifeless to Me resulting from her worsening signs.

“What’s attention-grabbing is that I look again over time and possibly for like six years I used to be having bizarre issues occurring,” she continued. “Fluorescent lights would hassle me… being up on a platform I might get afraid of heights.”

Blair has additionally recalled her expertise of noticing the preliminary signs of MS in Applegate, telling Individuals Journal that she observed the modifications in her The Sweetest Factor co-star throughout a playdate for his or her youngsters.

“I used to be noticing the signs when she was over,” she recalled. “I used to be like, ‘You have to get an MRI.’ She did.”

Like Applegate, Blair has additionally been candid about what residing with MS is like, revealing in a 2022 essay for The Guardian that she was urged to not go public along with her analysis.

“My medical doctors urged me to not go public,” she penned. “They mentioned folks wouldn’t perceive my analysis. They nervous I wouldn’t get work.

“They mentioned the illness may not progress past what I’d already skilled, so why share it?”