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Christina Applegate Be honest about a bad experience.
the Dead to me The star graphically detailed her recent bout Sapovirusa virus typically transmitted through fecal-oral contact, colorfully joked that the disease resulted in me “peeing out of my ass for a few days.”
“I would be disgusting,” Christina said — and so is she He struggles with multiple sclerosisShe participated in the April 23 episode of it chaotic Podcast. “I woke up at 3 a.m. in a puddle of water. I didn't know this happened, and having MS at 3 a.m. and trying to change your sheets is no fun.”
According to Christina, the health ordeal started a few weeks ago when someone “very close” to her “dropped the ball” and sent her home Covid-19Which led to her being infected with the virus for the first time. Because her immunity was already weakened by MS, Christina experienced more serious symptoms, including a chest infection and a rapid heart rate.
“I was feeling so dizzy,” she recalled. Jamie Lynn Sigler. “I was very sick. I couldn't eat. I couldn't eat anything.”
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In the midst of her illness, Christina had a stool test — during which she started vomiting because it was “so gross” — to find out what was wrong. Eventually, she was diagnosed with sapovirus.
“It happens when you eat someone else's faeces from your food,” the 57-year-old explained of the virus. “Someone else's feces went into my mouth and I ate it.”
Christina believes she contracted the virus after eating a take-out salad from a restaurant that was about to close for an unrelated reason.
“I'll be sick for about three weeks, so that's my fun story,” she added sarcastically.
And by dealing with sapovirus and MS that can Sometimes it causes difficulties in bladder controlChristina said she's formed some serious opinions about adult diapers.
“That's my problem: Why do they make it beautiful for women?” the Announcer The alum noted. “Like, 'Hey baby, do you want to get down and dirty my underwear with piss?'”
For more of Christina's candid statements about her health journey, read on.
Health journey
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Christina Applegate She shared Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis In 2021.
“Hello friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with MS,” she shared on her social media channels in August. “It's been a strange journey. But I've had great support from people I also know who suffer from this condition. It's been a tough road. But as we all know, the road goes on. Unless some pothole blocks it.”
First public appearance
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“Oh, by the way, I have an illness,” she joked during her November 2022 wedding. Hollywood Walk of Fame Induction Ceremony, her first public appearance since being diagnosed with MS. “Haven't you noticed? I'm not even wearing shoes.”
Early symptoms
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Christina believes her journey with MS actually began “six or seven years” before her diagnosis in 2021.
“I noticed that, especially in the first season [of Dead to Me]”We were shooting and my leg would break,” Christina said He explained during a March 2024 interview on Good morning America. “I put it off because I was tired, or dehydrated, or because of the weather. Then nothing happened for months, and I didn't care.”
By the time she was filming the third and final season of the Netflix series, the actress said she was “brought onto set in a wheelchair.”
“I couldn't go that far, so I had to tell everyone because I needed help,” she recalled.
Making moves
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the Dead to me The star captioned this photo of her cane set amid her battle with MS: “Walking canes are now a part of my life New normal“.
Strong statement
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Just a joke
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Healing through humor
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“I'm making these jokes because if I don't I'm going to choke,” Christina participated in a March 2024 episode of “I'm Telling These Jokes Because If I Don't I'm Going to Choke.” Chair expertExplaining why she often makes fun of her condition. “I will finish.”
MS is on her mind
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“I have 30 lesions in my brain“The biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot,” she said on the same podcast.
Legionnaires are caused by the immune system attacking the myelin sheath around nerves, according to Multiple Sclerosis Fund.
Get frank
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Christina hasn't held back when it comes to sharing her journey.
“It's disgusting” Announcer the actress told the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel From her daily struggles with MS. “I'm not going to lie. I think no one with MS would say, 'This is the best thing that has ever happened to me!'
In her bubble
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When we talk about it Everyday life with the disease“Christina said Good morning America In March 2024, “I'm kind of living in hell.”
“But I might get to a place where I do a little bit better,” she added. “Right now, I'm isolated, and this is how I'm dealing with it – by not going anywhere because I don't want to do it. It's hard.”
The best support
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Christina credits her sweetest thing com. costar Selma Blair— who was diagnosed with MS in 2018 — to urge her to get tested for the disease.
“She said, ‘You need to get checked out for MS,'” Christina recalled during the course GMA interview. “If it wasn't for her, it would have been a lot worse.”
Friendship never dies
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Christina confirmed this Dead to me It will likely be her last on-screen credit Vanity gallery In May 2023, “I can’t even imagine that I would be filming now.”
“I will probably never work in front of the camera again, but I am so happy that I got to go out with a woman who is by far the greatest actress I have ever worked with in my entire life,” she said of the actress. Linda Cardellini“If not the greatest person I have ever known.
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