diagnosed until 2021, she noticed mysterious symptoms two years earlier while shooting the pilot for the Netflix series “Dead to Me.”Applegate spoke about her experience on the Tuesday episode of her podcast, “Messy,” which she co-hosts with actress Jamie-LynnSigler, who also has MS.
The “Married… With Children” alum had her close friend and the creator of “Dead to Me,” Liz Feldman, on when she revealed that her symptoms appeared in 2019.
However, Applegate dismissed them and put off seeking medical help for a while.The star said that she fell while running across a field during a scene for the dark comedy and now realizes it was an early sign of her autoimmune condition. “I remember falling that day,” recalled Applegate. “Hi, first sign of MS!”Feldman also remembered the incident.“I remember you losing your balance a couple of times but it was very hard to figure out,” she said. “I remember one time it was like really late at night, we’d been shooting probably 14 or 15 hours, it seemed completely reasonable that anybody would be collapsing.”But in 2021, while shooting the third and final season of “Dead to Me,” Applegate was diagnosed after experiencing back problems, tingling and other symptoms since MS affects the brain and nerves.“There’s no handbook for this,” stated Feldman about the diagnosis. “I could just sense that A, she was scared and B, that something was wrong, something in her body was not working the way that she wanted it to.
I told her so many times that it’s just a TV show; we’re making a TV show and it’s so silly, you know, at the end of the day!” She added: “I knew Christina well enough to know that something major had to be going on because she’s an extreme professional.”The producers ended up.