{"id":636411,"date":"2026-10-20T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636411\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:28:09","slug":"actor-christina-applegate-reveals-she-was-misdiagnosed-with-multiple-sclerosis-christina-applegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636411\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Christina Applegate reveals she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis | Christina Applegate"},"content":{"rendered":"

After becoming a prominent advocate for multiple sclerosis<\/a> awareness and chronicling her struggles in an emotional memoir<\/a> published in March, the Emmy-winning actor Christina Applegate has revealed she does not have the debilitating autoimmune disease after all.<\/p>\n

Applegate, 54, made the stunning announcement in an episode of her podcast MeSsy, recorded with fellow actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, posted to YouTube<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m back at square one \u2013 that I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with me,\u201d she said through tears.<\/p>\n

Applegate recalled the moment she found out about the misdiagnosis in a visit to her doctor.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe came into my room and said, \u2018Congratulations \u2013 you don\u2019t have MS.\u2019 I was not happy at all. I had every symptom of someone with MS. Every single one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t gotten better. I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor\u2019s office. I can\u2019t walk from the car to the room. I\u2019m still in this. Nothing magical happened when she said, \u2018You don\u2019t have MS.\u2019 Nothing magical happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s weird because I feel like I let everybody down. It\u2019s this weird feeling of like I became this, you and I, the poster children for MS. Everything that I was doing, I had a fucking reason as to why my day sucked every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now I don\u2019t have a reason. It\u2019s very unnerving and it\u2019s really confusing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Applegate had revealed in 2021 that she was diagnosed with MS. In an interview<\/a> with People magazine promoting her memoir, titled You With the Sad Eyes, Apple said was largely confined to bed because of her diagnosed condition.<\/p>\n

She is known for her roles in the TV series Married \u2026 with Children and Dead to Me \u2013 as well as the films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Don\u2019t Tell Mom the Babysitter\u2019s Dead.<\/p>\n

Applegate also worked on the TV show Friends and won a 2002 Emmy for outstanding guest acting in a comedy series.<\/p>\n

She retired from acting two years after the 2021 MS diagnosis, when she wrapped up her role on Dead to Me.<\/p>\n

More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After becoming a prominent advocate for multiple sclerosis awareness and chronicling her struggles in an emotional memoir published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-636411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}