Christina Applegate describes her MS relapse: ‘Legs are just done’

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Actor Christina Applegate has stated that the debilitating ache brought about by her a number of sclerosis has left her unable to bathe.

On Tuesday’s pre-recorded episode of the MeSsy podcast she hosts with Lynn-Sigler, the 52-year-old stated the persistent illness, which impacts the mind and central nervous system, had relapsed and described the way it was affecting her life.

“I’m gonna be honest with you, I need to buy stock in Cottonelle because I haven’t taken a shower in three weeks,” Applegate instructed co-host Jamie Lynn-Sigler, who additionally lives with MS.

“Because I can’t stand in my shower. There’s no f***ing way I can use my shower. I have such a small bench and my ass is so huge these days that I can’t sit on it, it’s like I slip right off of it. So, I’ve been Cottonelle-ing my body.”

“I smell so bad. And it’s, like, awful. Thank God I’m always alone so that no one smells me except for Sades,” she stated, referring to her daughter Sadie, 12.

She added that her legs are repeatedly hurting and that she struggles to get circulation in them.

“I don’t know what’s going on, like, no energy, legs are just done, like, can’t get circulation, I can’t get them to stop hurting,” she defined.

The Dead to Me actor defined how the signs have been affecting totally different components of her physique and that she hadn’t been capable of sleep due to it.

“I’m in relapse right now, pretty bad. I haven’t slept for 24 hours because my eye is doing something weird, where every time I close my eye to go to sleep, my right eye starts to shift like this,” stated Applegate.

A consultant for Applegate confirmed to People journal that the podcast episode was taped “months ago,” and the actor shouldn’t be at the moment in a relapse section.

Applegate made an appearance on the Emmy Awards this yr, the place she offered an award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy. She even joked, “You’re totally shaming me, with a disability, by standing up — it’s fine!” because the viewers gave her a standing ovation.

In August 2021, Applegate revealed that she had been recognized with a number of sclerosis a couple of months earlier, and production on Netflix’s Dead to Me needed to be halted for 5 months when she started therapy.

“I got diagnosed while we were working, and I had to call everybody and be like, “I have multiple sclerosis, guys. Like, what the f***!”, she instructed Variety in November 2022.