{"id":643413,"date":"2026-10-28T03:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:32:09","slug":"christina-applegate-promises-shes-still-a-warrior-for-the-ms-community-after-misdiagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643413\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate promises she\u2019s still a \u2018warrior\u2019 for the MS community after misdiagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the misdiagnosis, Applegate said she felt as though she had \u201clet everybody down\u201d.<\/p>\n

She told Sigler: \u201cIt\u2019s this weird feeling because I became this, you and I: the poster children for MS.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything I was doing, I had a reason. I had a f***ing reason as to why my day sucked every day. And now I don\u2019t have a reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very unnerving, and it\u2019s very confusing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Applegate\u2019s medical team are now attempting to work out what is actually going on with the actor, who said she has ended up doubting her own symptoms in the days after the misdiagnosis.<\/p>\n

She sighed: \u201cI\u2019m sitting here having slept all day yesterday feeling like absolute crap because of the heat. My legs aren\u2019t working.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the same stuff is happening to me. And yet I have this thing of like, \u2018Well, you don\u2019t have that, so maybe you\u2019re faking it\u2019 in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christina \u2013 who was audibly emotional during the podcast \u2013 also admitted being told that she doesn\u2019t have MS<\/a> left her in a \u201cgreat depression\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI lost everything. I lost my job. What do you say to someone who\u2019s been living with this for six years \u2013 God, I\u2019m so sorry \u2013 because it stopped my life. I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the misdiagnosis, Applegate said she felt as though she had \u201clet everybody down\u201d. She told Sigler: \u201cIt\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[74,165361,217992,682,430,63871,1259,1239,127,156,2082,168020,20552,19033,2510,111,139,69,30503,19189,6180,6100,1361,223,165,6859,34807,102],"class_list":["post-643413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-after","tag-applegate","tag-autoimmune","tag-being","tag-celebrities","tag-christina","tag-community","tag-condition","tag-despite","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-misdiagnosed","tag-misdiagnosis","tag-ms","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-promises","tag-sclerosis","tag-shes","tag-still","tag-that","tag-the","tag-their","tag-told","tag-warrior","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643413","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=643413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}