Christina Applegate has revealed that she continues to battle multiple sclerosis and is confined to bed due to persistent pain.
“I’m married…and I have kids,” the alumnus made the heartbreaking confession in an interview with People published Tuesday, talking about how she still tries to take her daughter, Sadie, to school and other activities.
“I want to take her with me. It’s my favorite thing to do. It’s the only time we get to spend together, just the two of us,” she said. “I tell myself, ‘Get her to safety so I can get her home and get back to bed.’ And that’s what I’m doing.”
Applegate, 54, said being confined to her room has given her more freedom.
“My life doesn’t end with a bow,” she said. “People’s lives, for lack of a better word, can suck sometimes. So I try to be as honest and raw as possible.”
The author of “You with Sad Eyes” shares a 15-year-old child with husband Martin Lenoble, 56.
Applegate revealed in August 2021 that she was diagnosed with MS, which causes weakness, numbness, difficulty walking and vision problems.
“It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road goes on. Unless some hole prevents it,” she wrote via X.
Since then, the “Dead to Me” star has regularly updated fans, revealing in August that he was hospitalized due to “too much pain.”
At the time, Applegate told listeners of the MeSsy Podcast that she was diagnosed with a kidney infection, leaving her “screaming out” in pain.
In the same month, the actress told how her illness had “destroyed” her daughter.
“When I’m stuck in bed, I see her looking at me. Or I want to go and say goodnight in her room, but my legs don’t work that day and for some reason I can’t go out into the hallway,” she said on the podcast.
“Right now I can barely go to the bathroom and it’s the worst, but it’s neither here nor there,” Applegate added.
The “Bad Moms” star described her condition as similar to Sadie’s “losing her mother” and described herself in the past as “healthy, a runner, a runner, a dancer.”
But Sadie has supported her famous mother by helping her use a cane in public, Applegate said.
