Selma Blair is feeling optimistic.
The “Legally Blonde” actress revealed she’s “truly in remission” from multiple sclerosis while attending The Daily Front Row’s 9th Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards on Thursday.
“I am doing amazingly well,” the “Cruel Intentions” star told People at the event.
“I’ve been feeling great for about a year,” she added. “But I am finally well enough to really, genuinely … I always try and feel my best, but now that I actually have stamina and energy and getting out and going out isn’t so scary.”
The mom of one, 55, had been living with the autoimmune disease of the central nervous system for seven years. She said she’s now ready to focus on what lies ahead.
“It’s funny, I haven’t spent enough time having dreams,” she told the outlet. “And now it’s like, what are my dreams?”
“You’re just tired all the time,” she confessed of living with MS. “I spent so much of my life so tired from being unwell that I think I just was trying to get through the day.”
“It’s like, wait, I realize I don’t know what my goals are.”
The actress feels “much more career-oriented” now and said she “would love” to return to acting. In fact, she already has some movies in the works.
Additionally, the “Hellboy” star said she’s still “advocating for people with chronic illness and getting better, and what that looks like when you haven’t made your wishes.”
“How do we give ourselves a new life force?” she said.
For Blair, that new life force means more writing — she previously authored a memoir called “Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up.” Now, she’d like to write a young adult book, citing for inspiration Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved “The Secret Garden.”
In June 2024, Blair poignantly told Page Six how her service dog, Scout, helped her remember to take her MS medication.
“He gives me a little nibble on my nose because I can get a little spastic. He reminds me,” she said at Chanel’s Tribeca Festival Women’s Luncheon. “I get really distracted so I need him.”
She also said she was doing “well” following a bone marrow transplant several years earlier.
“It took a long time to recover but now I’m finally walking really well,” she told Page Six. “I’m wearing heels without a cane.”
Blair first disclosed her diagnosis in an emotional social media post in October 2018.
“I am disabled,” she wrote at the time. “I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken gps.”
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