{"id":500287,"date":"2026-02-26T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:04:07","slug":"christina-applegate-reveals-she-is-largely-confined-to-bed-due-to-multiple-sclerosis-christina-applegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500287\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate reveals she is largely confined to bed due to multiple sclerosis | Christina Applegate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina Applegate has revealed that she is now largely confined to her bed, five years after she was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with People magazine<\/a> before the release of her memoir, the 54-year-old actor said she spends a lot of her days in bed due to the pain that comes with movement.<\/p>\n

Applegate told People that she still takes her 15-year-old daughter, Sadie, to school as it has become her \u201cfavourite thing to do\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the only time we have together by ourselves,\u201d she 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

MS is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system begins to attack the sheath that protects nerve fibres, making it difficult for the brain to communicate with the rest of the body. It often makes it more challenging to walk and move, and for some leads to paralysis in the legs.<\/p>\n

The disease, which predominantly affects women, is rarely fatal but lowers life expectancy<\/a> by five to 10 years, on average.<\/p>\n

Applegate gained fame as a child actor in the hit sitcom Married With Children. Her new memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, includes her memories of growing up in Los Angeles and watching her mother, the actor Nancy Priddy, struggle with heroin addiction and multiple abusive partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy life isn\u2019t wrapped up with a bow,\u201d Applegate said. \u201cPeople\u2019s lives, sorry for lack of a better term, fucking suck sometimes. So I\u2019m being as honest and raw as I possibly can.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all have come from somewhere, some places more painful than others, and it\u2019s what you do with it, I guess. This is not an inspirational book, by any means. But it can inspire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Applegate has spoken previously about the impact of her condition on her daughter: \u201cI see her look at me when I\u2019m in bed and can\u2019t quite move, or I want to 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 \u2026 mommy can\u2019t do all the things that she used to be able to do, and I see it in her eyes. I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2008 Applegate underwent a bilateral mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/p>\n

She is now largely focused on voice acting and hosts a podcast about MS, MeSsy, with her friend and fellow actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has the condition.<\/p>\n

The Guardian will run an extract from Christina Applegate\u2019s memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, on 28 February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate has revealed that she is now largely confined to her bed, five years after she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-500287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}