Christina Applegate revealed her MS diagnosis in 2021.
He has opened since then, using his platform To get real About devastating autoimmune disease.
Before his diagnosis, however, there were warning signs.
But she missed those cues while shooting. The grueling hours that go into making television made his symptoms look like routine fatigue — at first.
Christina Applegate missed the early warning signs
Speaking on the Wednesday, December 11 edition of of MeSsy The podcastChristina Applegate told co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler and guest Liz Feldman how she fell for the latter’s set. Dead To Me Should have been a wakeup call.
“I remember falling that day,” the actress said, noting it happened while she was shooting a scene running in a field.
In retrospect, Applegate realizes: “Hi, first sign of MS! So, not to bring everyone down, but it was there. “
In August 2021, Christina Applegate revealed that she was suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS).
Sigler revealed his own MS battle, in January of 2016. Thus, their shared podcast.
Meanwhile, Feldman is the creator Dead To Me. That three-season Netflix series (yes, Netflix Three full seasons to show) was where Applegate began experiencing physical symptoms. But not, as both of them initially believed, because of the series.
It was not too late – this MS
“I remember you lost your balance a few times when we were shooting the pilot,” Feldman told Applegate.
“It was very hard to figure out,” he explained, “because, you know, I remember one time, it was really late at night.”
Feldman elaborated: “We were probably shooting for 14 or 15 hours … it seemed perfectly reasonable that anyone would collapse.” Yes, shooting — especially for television — can involve truly brutal hours.
“It was MS,” Christina Applegate then admitted. Nevertheless, she continued to work on the Netflix series through the third season – the time when she received her diagnosis.
“I just knew A, that she was scared, and B, that something was wrong … that something in her body wasn’t working the way she wanted it to,” Feldman explained. As the producer of the series, he was unsure of what to do.
“There’s no booklet for that,” he admitted. “I can’t compare it to any experience I’ve ever had with a person before.” Therefore, he “always tried to put [Christina Applegate’s] Health first in my mind” as they filmed.
The Netflix series was not as important as Christina Applegate and her health
Applegate praised how Feldman and the show’s crew went above and beyond to accommodate him. At one point, production stopped for a week while she recovered.
“It wouldn’t happen anywhere else, so my gratitude to you as a human being — because you have to be human and love other human beings — is amazing,” Applegate said.
She concluded: “I can’t even tell you … this is not a normal reaction.” But it really should be.
