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Christina Applegate ‘in depression’ because of her MS

Christina Applegate

Source: Good Morning America

Christina Applegate has revealed she has been left in a deep “depression” because of her multiple sclerosis.

The former Married With Children star – who was diagnosed with the neurological condition in 2021 – confessed that she is in a really “fatalastic, f–k it” headspace with her mental health after coming to terms with living the symptoms like mobility issues, fatigue and bowel control.

“I’m in a depression right now, which I don’t think I’ve felt that for years. Like a real, f–k it all depression where it’s kind of scaring me a little bit because it feels really fatalistic,” the 52-year-old actress told her friend and actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler on their podcast MeSsy.

“I’m trapped in like this darkness right now that I haven’t felt like … I don’t even know how long, probably 20 something years.”

Applegate also mentioned her surprise presenting stint at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards with pal Anthony Anderson, 53, as support.

She told 43-year-old Sigler – who also has MS – that the gig was part of “the hardest day of [her] life” and that she slept for “two days” after.

“This is being really honest … I don’t enjoy living. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore,” Applegate said in a frank comment about her condition.

Sigler – who is best known for playing Tony Soprano’s daughter Meadow on the legendary HBO series The Sopranos – admitted that she knew how hard it could be but found it easier to not live in the past.

“It’s so hard to live in a disabled body. It is so hard. I will not take that away from you, and I am right there with you. But what makes it harder is when you compare it to how it used to be,” she said.

“Once we get you to this place where we’re accepting that this is how it’s going to be, maybe forever … [coping with MS] is not a reason enough for you to stop living because I sit here across from you and you still make me laugh like nobody else can. You still make me smile. You make me feel loved.”

Applegate, who also starred in Anchorman and Netflix’s Dead To Me, went public with her medical condition in 2021, writing on social media: “I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road.”

Earlier this year, she also opened up about her struggles with the disease, saying she felt like she was “living in hell”.

“I live kind of in hell,” she told Good Morning America host Robin Roberts.

“I’m not out a lot, so this is a little difficult, just for my system. But of course, the support is wonderful and I’m really grateful.”

MS is an autoimmune condition that disrupts communication between the brain and the body. It is treatable but there is no cure – and its cause remains unknown.

-with AAP

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