Christina Applegate candidly opened up about how the debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis have recently affected her ability to maintain her personal hygiene.
During Tuesday’s episode of her “MeSsy” podcast, the 52-year-old actress revealed that she was suffering a “pretty bad” relapse amid her battle with the chronic disease, which affects the brain and central nervous system.
“I’m gonna be honest with you, I need to buy stock in Cottonelle because I haven’t taken a shower in three weeks,” Applegate told co-host Jamie Lynn-Sigler, who also suffers from MS.
She continued, “Because I can’t stand in my shower. There’s no f—— way I can use my shower.”
“I have such a small bench and my a– is so huge these days that I can’t sit on it, it’s like I slip right off of it,” she added. “So, I’ve been Cottonelle-ing my body.”
“You just lay in a dark room watching TV and wanting it all to just go away. And that’s kind of where I’m at,” she admitted.
In August 2021, Applegate revealed she had been diagnosed with MS a few months earlier. Production on the last season of her hit Netflix show “Dead to Me” was halted for about five months while she began treatment.
“I got diagnosed while we were working, and I had to call everybody and be like, “I have multiple sclerosis, guys. Like, what the f—!”, she told Variety in November 2022.
“And then it was about kind of learning — all of us learning — what I was going to be capable of doing. It had to be cold, because heat is our kryptonite. Can’t work those 18-hour days, you know? It was impossible.”
During a 2022 appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Applegate shared that filming the third and final season of “Dead to Me” was the “hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
She went on to tell Clarkson that looking back, she realized there were warning signs for years that she had MS.
“I started thinking about the last four years, and I had very small symptoms,” she said. The Emmy winner added that she thought it was important for people to know that.
“Let’s not all be hypochondriacs and run to the doctor when our leg gets weak,” Applegate said. “But it happened to me four years ago where we were on set, and I’d go like, ‘I think I’m tired, you know?’
“So it presented itself like a few years ago until it just got as bad as it did.”
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