Christina Applegate: She announces her father’s death

“This is the first time that I cried properly!” The actress Christina Applegate (53), suffering from multiple sclerosis, announces the death of her father in the current episode of her under tears. The “a terribly nice family” star lost his father Robert Applegate (1942-2025), according to his own statement a week ago.

“This is the first time that I cried properly. I think I have not allowed myself to do it so far,” it breaks out of the serial heroine in the talk with actress Joanna Garcia (45, known from “Sweet Magnolia”) when she talks about the death of her parents. “I was too busy with this and that.”

Applegate does not provide any information about the cause of death.

Her family knew that her father would die, but she wonders: “Is that an excuse for not feeling anything? Because you know that someone will go? And you have already said goodbye to him?” It was only in the further course of the conversation that the former actress, who announced her retreat from the film industry in 2023, explained that she did not grew up with her father: “He and my mother separated when I was five months old, but he has always been in my life since then.”

She says that her father “was not part of her lessons in life”, but that thanks to him she won two “beautiful siblings and an amazing stepmother”. Applegate was the only child of Robert Applegate and Nancy Priddy (84).

In November, Christina Applegate shared a shocking child in the podcast mentioned: her symptoms had gotten worse. “I lie screaming in bed – the stinging pain, pulling, pressing,” said Applegate. The effects of incurable autoimmune disease MS feel it “every single day of my life”.