Christina Applegate noticed first signs of MS during Dead To Me filming
'Dead To Me' star Christina Applegate has recalled "falling" on the set of the drama, which she later realised were the first signs of MS.
Christina Applegate noticed the first signs of MS after "falling" on 'Dead To Me'.
The 53-year-old actress was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, but she has recalled filming the pilot episode of the drama - which aired from 2019 to 2022 - which included a scene where her character Jen Harding was running across a field.
During an episode of her own 'MeSsy' podcast with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, she told 'Dead To Me' director Liz Feldman: "I remember falling that day.
"Hi, first sign of MS! So, not to bring everybody down, but there was I was."
Liz recalled: "I remember you losing your balance when we were shooting the pilot a couple of times.
“It was very hard to figure it out because, you know, I remember one time, it was really late at night.
"We’d been shooting probably 14 or 15 hours … It seemed completely reasonable that anybody would be collapsing.”
Christina confirmed: "It was MS."
She revealed her diagnosis with the autoimmune disease - which affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) - in 2021, before the show finished, and she previously admitted that filming the final season helped her deal with the news.
She told Kelly Clarkson in December 2022: "The beauty of 'Dead to Me' is that it gave me almost this weird platform of dealing with it, where I didn't have to be on all the time and I didn't have to make all the jokes and I could fall apart in a scene.
"And it was, like, me. It was my soul actually falling apart, unfortunately, in front of the world, but it was cathartic in a beautiful way."
She and fellow MS patient Jamie-Lynn Sigler launched their 'MeSsy' podcast, to talk about their lives with the illness.
Christina said: "Just some thoughts. When we hold in feelings of despair we give those feelings incredible power.
"Why Jamie and I have our podcast is to air those feelings.
"Raw, honest and triggering. And by just sharing we free ourselves. Never feel alone. There is always an ear somewhere. Love you."
