Christina Applegate was devastated when her daughter told her she misses “who you were before you got sick”.
Christina Applegate: ‘I miss who I was before I got sick’
The 53-year-old actress – who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021 – admitted it was “like a knife to the heart” when her 14-year-old daughter Sadie shared how difficult she finds it coping with her mother’s illness.
Speaking on the Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast, Christina said: “I don’t get up in the morning with that, I get up because of her. She’s the reason I’m still here and trying.”
“But she did say to me, and we got into a big thing the other day, and sorry Sadie, but it has to be said. She said, ‘I missed who you were before you got sick’. That is just like a knife to the heart because I miss who I was before I got sick too. Very much.”
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the brain and central nervous system.
Last year, Christina – who has been married to Sadie’s dad Martyn LeNoble since 2013 – admitted she was really struggling to come to terms with her illness.
She told the Messy podcast: “It’s kind of scaring me too a little bit because it feels really fatalistic, it feels really ‘end of’. I don’t mean that, but I’m trapped in this darkness right now that I haven’t felt in probably 20-something years. I don’t enjoy living. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore.”
She later added: “I’m good. Does that take a little bit of the pressure off of all of you? I’m good. Let’s address it. We are going to address it. It’s a moment. It’s a thought. It’s a feeling. I…
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