Christina Applegate is giving fans an update on her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) battle revealing that she’s been experiencing “real depression” and no longer “enjoys living.” In 2021, the ‘Dead To Me‘ actress announced that she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and even hinted that she may never return to acting because of her health battle.
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Earlier this year, in April, ‘Anchorman‘ actress Christina Applegate took to her ‘MeSsy‘ podcast — which she launched in March with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who’s been suffering from MS for over 20 years — and revealed how her MS relapse has impacted her personal hygiene, like showering. The ‘Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead‘ actress told Sigler, “I’m gonna be honest with you, I need to buy stock in Cottonelle because I haven’t taken a shower in three weeks. I can’t stand in my shower. There’s no f***ing way.”
She added, “I have such a small bench, and my a** is so huge these days that I can’t sit on it. It’s like I slip right off of it. So, I’ve been Cottonelle-ing my body.” She added that she smells “so bad” and that the experience has been “awful.” She also noted that her 12-year-old daughter, Said, with whom she shares with husband Martyn LeNoble, is the only person she interacts with.
Applegate said, “Thank God I’m always alone so that no one smells me. [Sadie’s] always like, ‘Oh Mama, that’s bad.’ I make her smell my armpits, just to make her vomit.”
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Since her last update, Christina Applegate is again opening up about her Multiple Sclerosis battle, now admitting some mental health challenges she’s been facing like “real depression” that’s making it hard to “enjoy living” her life. Taking to the Tuesday (June 4) release of her ‘MeSsy; podcast, Applegate says she’s in the depths of a “real depression,” unlike anything she has ever experienced since her 2021 diagnosis.
Due to all of the stress on her body and the toll Multiple Sclerosis has taken on her, Christina Applegate told her co-host and friend Jamie-Lynn Sigler, “This is being really honest…I don’t enjoy living. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore.”
Replying, Sigler told Applegate she completely understood her frustrations and encouraged her to not wave the white flag. She assured her, “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 … 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 still make me feel loved.”
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Christina Applegate later added, “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. 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.”
She also said she had been reluctant to seek therapy ever since her 2021 Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, but with the severity of her depression and heavy emotions, she has reached back out to her longtime therapist. She explained, “I have avoided therapy since I’ve been diagnosed because I’m so afraid to start crying and that I’m not going to be able to end crying. I just am so I’m so afraid for those floodgates to open and that I won’t be able to stop.”
Sigler continued to encourage her to let everything out and not bottle anything up, stating, “I feel like you owe it to yourself to cry and really, really go there… You gotta just, you gotta allow yourself to feel that stuff. You can’t keep pushing it away, otherwise you’re gonna be where you’re at right now. You’re like in a purgatory, you know?”
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