Christina Applegate gave candid insight into her difficult battle with multiple sclerosis.
Christina Applegate Reveals She 'Lays in Bed Screaming' Amid Tough Multiple Sclerosis Battle: 'I Can't Even Pick Up the Phone'
Christina Applegate will not suppress how difficult her battle with multiple sclerosis is.
During the Monday, November 5, episode of her "MeSsy" podcast with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has the medical condition, the Bad Moms actress, 52, got explicit about how badly she's suffering in her day-to-day life.
Christina Applegate gave details about how difficult her struggle with multiple sclerosis is.
"I lay in bed screaming — like, the sharp pains, the ache, that squeezing," Applegate told the Sopranos alum, 43, and their guest Rory Kandel, an entrepreneur who also has MS.
The Rory’s Bakehouse owner added of her own struggle, "It feels like I have knives in my stomach. Like, I'll be laying in bed, and I wake up, and I physically can't turn from side to side.”
Christina Applegate said she lays in bed 'screaming.'
"It's the worst,” the Sweet Charity star noted while emphasizing that the disease “damages the protective cover around nerves called myelin in your central nervous system. It can cause muscle weakness, vision changes, numbness and memory issues."
“Do you feel like that?” Kandel questioned Applegate before she replied, “Every single day of my life.”
"I can't even pick up my phone sometimes because now it's traveled into my hands, so I'll, like, try to go get my phone or get my remote to turn on the TV or sometimes, I can't even hold them. I can't open bottles now," the Married with Children star explained.
Christina Applegate revealed she cannot pick up her phone.
As Applegate's symptoms worsen, she's vowed to give everyone insight into what's happening to her body. “I just lay in bed all the time. I mean, I worked for almost 50 years, so I'm kind of okay with it," she explained.
"I put my feet on the ground and they're hurting, like, extraordinarily bad to the touch," the former child star said. "I was like, 'Yep. Gonna get back in my bed and pee in my diaper because I don't feel like walking all the way to the damn bathroom.' I actually don't lay here and pee in my bed diaper. That's just a joke. But it's like it's so freaking painful and so hard and so awkward."
Christina Applegate revealed her multiple sclerosis in 2021.
As Morning Honey previously reported, Applegate has been honest about how deeply her physical ailments have affected her mental well-being.
"This is being really honest...I don't enjoy living. I don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy things anymore," she said in a January 2024 episode of the podcast. "I'm in a depression right now, which I don't think I've felt that for years. Like a real, f--- it all depression where it's kind of scaring me to 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."