Christina Applegate said she is “getting stronger and better every day” after her recent hospitalization.
“Thank you for the outpouring of love and blessings,” she wrote in an Instagram caption on Monday. “Health issues are a constant for me, but I’m a strong kid and I’m getting stronger and better every day. I’m taking some time to focus on my health right now, but I’ll talk to you again soon.”
Applegate announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August 2021, and has been open about her health struggles in the years since, particularly in her 2026 memoir Sad Eyes and the podcast she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has MS. Applegate’s Instagram post comes after reports recently began circulating that she was hospitalized in late March, with media outlets including the Daily Mail and Page Six reporting that those close to her were preparing for the worst.
Applegate, best known for starring in the family sitcom “Married…with Children,” which ran for 11 seasons on Fox from 1987 to 1977, retired from acting to battle MS. The comedy-thriller series “Dead to Me” was her last role. Season 3 began filming just before her diagnosis and was released in 2022. In an interview with Variety magazine that year, she said that she was “sleeping the entire time” during the filming of Season 3 and had to use a wheelchair to get to the set. “I had to call everyone and say, ‘I’m a person with multiple sclerosis. Oh my god!'” And that was kind of a learning experience, all of us learning what I was capable of. ”
