Years before she was formally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Christina Applegate disclosed a little symptom that she had that initially indicated the disease.
The 53-year-old actress, who is arguably best remembered for her parts in Married… with Children and Dead to Me, came out as having multiple sclerosis in 2021 after receiving a diagnosis a few months before.
She had difficulties while filming the third and final season of Dead To Me because of the effects of the disease, which is a chronic condition that affects the central nervous system.
She had disregarded the “tiny” symptoms of the illness for seven years prior to receiving a diagnosis, but she has subsequently disclosed them.
The actress and her longtime friend Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who is also battling the illness, talked about the early warning symptoms in a prior Good Morning America interview.
“I probably had [MS] for six or seven years, I think,” Applegate says. “I noticed, especially the first season [of Dead to Me], we’d be shooting and my leg would buckle. I really just put it off as being tired, or I’m dehydrated, or it’s the weather.”
