‘Anchorman‘ actress Christina Applegate opens up about her battle with Multiple Sclerosis, admitting that she hasn’t showered in three weeks amid a painful MS relapse.
During the Tuesday (April 2) episode of her ‘MeSsy‘ podcast — which she launched last month with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also suffers from MS — Christina Applegate, 52, reveals how her MS relapse has impacted her personal hygiene, like showering. The ‘Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead‘ actress told Sigler, “I’m gonna be honest with you, I need to buy stock in Cottonelle because I haven’t taken a shower in three weeks. I can’t stand in my shower. There’s no f***ing way.”
She added, “I have such a small bench, and my a** 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.” She added that she smells “so bad” and that the experience has been “awful.” She also noted that her 12-year-old daughter, Said, with whom she shares with husband Martyn LeNoble, is the only person she interacts with.
Applegate said, “Thank God I’m always alone so that no one smells me. [Sadie’s] always like, ‘Oh Mama, that’s bad.’ I make her smell my armpits, just to make her vomit.”
In 2021, the ‘Dead To Me‘ actress announced that she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and even hinted that she may never return to acting because of her health battle. During Tuesday’s podcast episode of her podcast, Christina Applegate updated fans on her health, noting that overall, since her MS relapse, she has “no energy” and her “legs are just done.”
She said she’s currently experiencing “intense pain” in her legs and is unable to walk to the bathroom without feeling like she’s going to fall. She explained, “Insane tingling that just has spurts of tingles that are weird coming from, like, my butt down. 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.”
She added, “[I] definitely am going to have to go in and see someone because it’s a little scary and freaking me out that my eye is going to burst out of my face or something. I’m a little concerned about that, and my legs have never been this bad, so I don’t know what’s going on.” Applegate said the only thing she can really do is “lay in a dark room, watching TV, and wanting it all to go away.”
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