Christina Applegate: “I can’t open bottles anymore”

Christina Applegate suffers severely from her illness. The actress, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, spoke to actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also suffers from MS, about the disease.

Her symptoms have now become even worse. “I’m lying in bed screaming – the stabbing pain, the pulling, the pushing,” says Applegate, describing her torment. “It’s the worst.” The actress also reports that she feels the effects of the disease “every single day of my life.” “Sometimes I can’t even pick up my phone because it’s now moved into my hands. So I try to get my phone or my remote to turn on the TV and I can’t even hold it. I can’t get one now Open bottles more.”

Most of the time she would lie in bed because the pain was so great, Applegate reports. “I mean, I’ve worked for almost 50 years, so I figure I can handle it.” Getting out of bed in the morning is as painful as if the floor was made of lava. “I put my feet on the floor and they hurt incredibly when I touch them,” Applegate says. “I was like, ‘Yep, I’m going to go back to my bed and pee in my diaper’ because I don’t feel like walking all the way to the damn bathroom.” The latter was just a joke, she quickly added: “I’m not really lying here peeing in my bed diaper.”

Christina Applegate is brutally honest about the neurological autoimmune disease both in her podcast and in interviews. In June, she said in a podcast episode that she could no longer enjoy life or have as much fun as she used to. She also spoke openly about psychological problems such as depression that come with her MS disease. In June, she explained her attitude towards going public so honestly with her experiences: “When people have these [Dinge] Keep it to themselves because they’re afraid to say how they really feel, we give the problems immense power.”