Selma Blair gives update on her MS almost thee years after going into remission
'Cruel Intentions' star Selma Blair has given an update on her MS almost thee years after going into remission.
Selma Blair is feeling hopeful for her health after going into remission.
The 49-year-old actress was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018 before going through a risky two-month hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in order to try and jumpstart her immune and believes that "no news is good news" following a recent MRI scan.
She told E! News: "I've been in remission for a while. I just had an MRI last week. No news is good news. But I did a transplant, and it was amazing to have the bone marrow transplant."
The 'Cruel Intentions' star also noted that she is glad to have gone public with her neurological condition - which affects the brain and causes symptoms, such as problems with vision, arm or leg movement, sensation, or balance - especially now that her fellow actresses Christina Applegate and Jami-Lynn Sigler, who document their own struggles with the disease on the MeSsy podcast.
She said: "They're being really open about their experiences. I love that they're doing that. They're both good friends of mine. I love listening to them hang out and discover."
Selma first revealed that she was in remission in late 2021 and reflected that she wanted to "tell the truth" about her condition even though it had been a "really hard time" for her.
Speaking in her documentary ‘Introducing, Selma Blair’, she said of her life before the treatment: "It was a really hard time in my life. People don't say how excruciating, emotionally, it can be to kind of prove you're not well. But I want to tell the truth about MS. It is important to me that people see what living with a chronic illness is like."
The ‘Legally Blonde’ actress had to go through treatment that included an aggressive course of chemotherapy and a long recovery that took its toll on her physically and emotionally.
She added: "The severe fatigue is still such a gargantuan boulder in my way.#
"I'm working on it. Little by little, I can do all these things. I mean, I can't say I could go running, but I can jog down to the mailbox if I were to practice a few times."
