Christina Applegate: Her last awards show was “a big deal”

Christina Applegate, 51, revealed the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) will most likely be her last as she continues to struggle with the effects of the disease. In 2021, the US actress made her MS diagnosis public.

“It’s probably my last awards show as an actress, so it’s a big deal,” Applegate said in a statement published Tuesday to spend on set.”

Your future career plans

Applegate is nominated for Outstanding Performance as an Actor in a Comedy Series for her role as Jen Harding in the Netflix comedy Dead to Me (three seasons). The nomination is her sixth SAG nomination.

Although acting is off her radar, Applegate already has her eye on her next career move: “Doing a whole bunch of voiceovers to make some money so my daughter can feed her and we can have a home,” she told the newspaper .

The 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards will be presented on February 26 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California.

Filming had to pause after the diagnosis

Christina Applegate, who became famous in the 1980s with the sitcom “A Terribly Nice Family”, had made public in August 2021 that she had multiple sclerosis.

In mid-January, she made her first appearance at an awards ceremony since her MS diagnosis. According to US media reports, the actress did not walk the red carpet at the Critics’ Choice Awards 2023 at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. But she posed for photographers backstage. Applegate, who was leaning on a cane, was accompanied to the show by her 11-year-old daughter, Sadie Grace LeNoble.

In a conversation with the “New York Times” in November 2022, she spoke again about the disease. “I will never accept that,” she said at the time. “I’m pissed.” After receiving the diagnosis, filming of the third and final season of Dead to Me, in which Applegate co-stars, took a five-month hiatus from filming.