Christina Applegate uses humor to cope with her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
During the performance at Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday, Dead to me actress, 52, who was diagnosed with MS in 2021, joked about joining the series.
“I was thinking wouldn’t it be funny if I came out and did a somersault like Willy Wonka? And then I said ‘ta-da’, you’d be like ‘What the fuck. She’s such a liar.’ I’m not. I’m literally disabled,” Applegate said.
Kimmel, 56, replied, “I learned from our texting that you have a very sick sense of humor,” to which Applegate responded, “That’s how I live. That’s how I keep myself good.”
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Applegate joked about the times she cries, telling the host, “Every day, when I wake up. It’s okay.”
Of dealing with the diagnosis, she added: “I mean, it sucks. I’m not going to lie. And I don’t think anyone who has MS is going to say, ‘This is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.’ ‘ ”
“It really isn’t. Because it would make you have a really crappy life if it’s the best thing, the best thing that’s ever happened to you is something like this,” Applegate joked.
She then told the crowd, “That was a joke. You don’t understand me!”
“Look, did I want this? No. Do I want this for anyone? No. But now it’s normal for me,” Bad moms star added.
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Applegate, who recently launched her new podcast, MeSsy, with close friend Jamie-Lynn Sigler, spoke to PEOPLE earlier this month about how living with an MS diagnosis means she can’t always be the mom she wants to be at 13 -old daughter Sadie.
“She had to see the loss of her mother, the way I was a mother with her,” Applegate said. “Dance with her every day. Pick her up from school every day. He works in his school, he works in the library. To be present outside the house, outside your bed. She doesn’t see those things anymore. This is a loss for her as well. And we’re both learning as we go.”
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She said there are times when her symptoms are so painful and overwhelming that she can’t be with her daughter, who she shares with her husband, Martyn LeNoble, 54.
“He’ll walk into the room, and if he sees me laying on my side, he knows he can’t ask me for anything,” Applegate said. “And it breaks me, it breaks me. Because I like doing things for my child. I like to prepare food for her. I love bringing it to her. I love it all, and sometimes I just can’t. But I’m trying. I am trying.”
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