{"id":590321,"date":"2026-04-17T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:35:08","slug":"actress-christina-applegate-reportedly-has-been-hospitalized-since-late-march-chicago-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590321\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Christina Applegate reportedly has been hospitalized since late March \u2013 Chicago Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Applegate has reportedly been hospitalized in Los Angeles since late March, amid the Emmy winner\u2019s enduring battle with multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old \u201cDead to Me\u201d star\u2019s representative would not confirm the information given to TMZ by sources with direct knowledge, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/16\/christina-applegate-hospitalized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">claimed her lengthy hospitalization but could not detail the circumstances<\/a> surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no comment on whether she is in the hospital or what her medical treatments are,\u201d Applegate\u2019s rep said in a statement to the Daily News. \u201cShe\u2019s had a long history of complicated medical conditions that she has been refreshingly open about, as evidenced in her memoir and on her podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMarried\u2026 with Children\u201d alum was diagnosed in 2021 with MS, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/multiple-sclerosis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20350269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">affects communication between the brain and body<\/a>, and damages nerve fibers. Symptoms can include difficulty with coordination and walking, partial or complete loss of vision, often in one eye at a time, slurred speech, mood changes, vertigo, and more.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Applegate shared on the \u201cMeSSy\u201d podcast she hosts with \u201cSopranos\u201d alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also battles the autoimmune disease, that she does not \u201cenjoy living\u201d anymore and suffers now from <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/you-get-what-you-give\/id1734318382?i=1000657780011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201ca real, f\u2212\u2212k-it-all depression.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of scaring me too a little bit because it feels really fatalistic,\u201d said Applegate at the time.<\/p>\n<p>She revealed in early 2025 that symptoms from MS had sent her to the hospital \u201cupwards of 30 times\u201d over three years. This past summer, she was also hospitalized with a double kidney infection.<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks after the March 3, 2026, release of her memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/christina-applegate\/you-with-the-sad-eyes\/9780316594929\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cYou With the Sad Eyes,\u201d<\/a> Applegate told NPR\u2019s \u201cWild Card with Rachel Martin\u201d that she had already purchased her burial plot as she feels death \u201clooming\u201d and thinks about it \u201cevery day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate has reportedly been hospitalized in Los Angeles since late March, amid the Emmy winner\u2019s enduring battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,2558,2628,47892],"class_list":{"0":"post-590321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-things-to-do","11":"tag-tv-and-streaming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}