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Christina Applegate is clarifying Recent Comments She wrote this article about her struggles with mental health during her battle with multiple sclerosis (MS).
During the June 4 episode of her “Messy” podcast, which she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the 52-year-old “Dead to Me” actress revealed she was “depressed.”
“Like a real, bullshit depression that scares me a little bit because it feels really fatalistic. I’ve just been stuck in this darkness that I never realized I had for… I don’t even know how long, maybe 20 years,” said Applegate, who first revealed her cancer diagnosis. chronic disease In 2021.
“I’m being really honest… I don’t enjoy living. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore,” she said.
Christina Applegate has opened up about recent comments she made about struggling with her mental health during her battle with MS. (John Shearer/Getty Images for ABA)
In the latest episode of the “MeSsy” podcast, Applegate reassured her fans who were worried about her health and said she was “very upset” by the “clickbait” surrounding her comments.
Christina Applegate addresses future as an actress amid MS diagnosis
“I’m fine. Does that take some of the pressure off you all? I’m fine,” Applegate said.
“Let’s think about this,” said Sigler, who also struggles with MS.
“We would talk about it,” Applegate said. “I was talking about some of the bad things I was thinking and feeling.”
“It’s our safe space to get those things out,” she added. “Because I think when we keep things inside, we give them power. I also think a lot of people feel a lot of shame when they’re going through mental health issues, and they call them issues.”
“I hate him,” Actress He said, “It’s not a mental problem. It’s not a problem. It’s a moment. It’s a thought. It’s a feeling. And when people hold it inside because they’re afraid to say what they really feel, we give it too much power.”
The actress previously revealed that she is “depressed” and said, “I don’t enjoy living.” (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
The “Married … with Children” alum said she believes “society has told us we should be just OK.”
“And I’m not involved in that,” Applegate said. “I’m not a supporter of that kind of thing. I think it’s incredibly healing and important to be able to express ideas, whether it makes someone uncomfortable or not, to be able to say it.”
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Following his remarks, Emmy Award Winners She explained that she began receiving messages from people who were worried about her and had to reassure them that she had “beautiful people and beautiful support systems around her.”
However, Applegate feared that this expression of concern might make others reluctant to express their own feelings.
Applegate reassured her worried fans that she was “good.” (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association)
“By making such a big deal about it you’re making other people think, ‘Oh, s—, I can’t talk about this.’ And that’s not okay with me,” she said. “It’s important to be able to say these things. And, no, I’m not sitting here on suicide watch, OK? I’m not. I never have been.”
“I challenge anyone if they’re diagnosed with MS or any kind of chronic illness that changes what you were before that moment and you say, ‘This is awesome,'” she continued. “You know what? No, you have moments of feeling like, ‘This is exhausting and I don’t want to do this.’ But you do it, and by saying this shit out loud with friends like you and my beautiful friends, it takes the pressure off the balloon.”
Applegate told him the diagnosis On X, formerly Twitter, in 2021.
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The star revealed she was diagnosed with MS in 2021. (Philippe Faraone/Getty Images)
“Hi guys. I was diagnosed with MS a few months ago,” he wrote.
“It’s been a weird journey. But I’ve had so much support from people I know who have suffered from this disease,” Applegate continued. “It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road goes on. Until some motherfucker stops it.”
In a separate post, she added, “As one of my friends who has MS said, ‘We wake up and take the steps.’ And that’s exactly what I do.”
In his first lengthy personal interview since being diagnosed with the disease, Applegate said Openly talked about “hell” The house she is living in.
“I’m living in hell,” she said in an interview with “Good Morning America” in March. “I don’t get out much, so it’s a little difficult, just for my system. But of course, the support has been amazing, and I’m really grateful.”
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Fox News Digital’s Laurin Overhultz contributed to this report.
