{"id":501857,"date":"2026-02-24T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:39:07","slug":"christina-applegate-is-confined-to-her-bed-amid-painful-ms-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501857\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate is confined to her bed amid painful MS battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Applegate revealed she\u2019s confined to her bed due to ongoing pain as she continues to battle multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMarried\u2026 with Children\u201d alum made the heartbreaking confession while discussing how she still tries to take her daughter, Sadie, to school and other activities <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/christina-applegate-hopes-to-empower-others-with-her-revealing-memoir-exclusive-11912521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">during an interview with People<\/a> published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to take her; it\u2019s my favorite thing to do. It\u2019s the only time we have together by ourselves,\u201d\u00a0she said. \u201cI tell myself, \u2018Just get her there safely and get home so you can get back into bed.\u2019 And that\u2019s what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christina Applegate, seen here in December, shared that she\u2019s confined to her bed as she continues to battle multiple sclerosis. christinaapplegate\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The actress, photographed above in 2023, discussed how she still tries to take her daughter, Sadie, to school despite being in pain during an interview with People published Tuesday Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Applegate, 54, shared that being restricted to her room has allowed her to be more unfiltered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy life isn\u2019t wrapped up with a bow,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople\u2019s lives, sorry for lack of a better term, f\u2013king suck sometimes. So I\u2019m being as honest and raw as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"031659492X\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FYou-Sad-Eyes-Christina-Applegate%2Fdp%2F031659492X%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F02%2F24%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fchristina-applegate-is-confined-to-her-bed-amid-painful-ms-battle%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">The \u201cYou With Sad Eyes\u201d author<\/a> shares her 15-year-old with her husband,\u00a0Martyn LeNoble, 56.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to take her; it\u2019s my favorite thing to do,\u201d she said. christinaapplegate\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the only time we have together by ourselves,\u201d\u00a0Applegate, seen here in January 2024, said. \u201cI tell myself, \u2018Just get her there safely and get home so you can get back into bed.\u2019 And that\u2019s what I do.\u201d Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<p>Applegate revealed that she was <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/08\/10\/christina-applegate-reveals-multiple-sclerosis-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diagnosed with MS<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/multiple-sclerosis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20350269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">disease that causes <\/a>weakness, numbness, difficulty walking and vision issues, in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a\u2013hole blocks it,\u201d she wrote via X.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the \u201cDead to Me\u201d star has periodically updated fans, revealing in August that she was <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/05\/celebrity-news\/christina-applegate-hospitalized-suffering-from-so-much-pain-as-she-reveals-new-health-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hospitalized with \u201cso much pain.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cDead to Me\u201d star was diagnosed with MS in 2021. Jim Ruymen\/UPI \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Applegate, photographed above in January 2024, previously revealed how the condition has impacted her daughter. Getty Images for ABA<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Applegate explained to her \u201cMeSsy Podcast\u201d listeners that she was \u201cscreaming\u201d with pain and diagnosed with a kidney infection.<\/p>\n<p>That same month, the actress shared how her condition has \u201cbroken\u201d her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see her look at me when I\u2019m in bed and can\u2019t quite move, or I wanna go say goodnight to her in her room, but I can\u2019t quite get down the hallway for whatever reason that my legs aren\u2019t working that day,\u201d she said on her podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see her look at me when I\u2019m in bed and can\u2019t quite move, or I wanna go say goodnight to her in her room, but I can\u2019t quite get down the hallway for whatever reason that my legs aren\u2019t working that day,\u201d the actress, seen here in 2022, said on her \u201cMeSsy\u201d podcast in August. Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n<p>However, Applegate shared that Sadie, photographed here in 2015, has been helping her in the ways she can. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now I can barely get to bathroom, it\u2019s the worst, but that\u2019s neither here nor there,\u201d Applegate added.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBad Moms\u201d star explained her condition was similar to Sadie \u201closing the mom she had,\u201d describing her past self as \u201chealthy, and a runner, and a Pelotoner and a dancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadie, however, has supported her famous mother by assisting her while out in public and with using her cane, Applegate said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate revealed she\u2019s confined to her bed due to ongoing pain as she continues to battle multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,23393,23394,1581,6126,21993,134,344,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-501857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrity-illnesses","11":"tag-celebrity-interviews","12":"tag-celebrity-news","13":"tag-christina-applegate","14":"tag-diseases","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}