Christina Applegate has said she lies in bed “screaming” because of “sharp pain” caused by her multiple sclerosis (MS).
On Tuesday’s episode of her podcast “MeSsy,” the “Married…With Children” alum and her co-host, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has MS, chatted with guest Rory Kandel , a bakery owner who was diagnosed with the same. chronic disease.
“I laid in bed screaming — like sharp pains, aches, tightness,” Applegate, 52, confessed during the show.
Kandel said she sometimes felt like she had “knives in my [her] stomach,” adding: “I’ll stay in bed, I wake up and I physically can’t turn from side to side.”
“Do you feel that?” ” the baker asked the “Dead to Me” actress, who replied, “Every day of my life.” »
“Sometimes I can’t even pick up my phone because now it’s in my hands so I’ll try to go get my phone or get my remote to turn on the TV or sometimes I can’t even hold them .I can’t open the bottles now,” Applegate added.
The “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” star said there were days when his MS, a chronic illness that damages the central nervous system by attacking the protective layer around nerve fibers, was so painful that it “stayed in bed all the time”. .’
Applegate also compared the floor to lava because of the pain she felt when trying to get out of bed.
“I put my feet on the ground and they hurt extremely to the touch,” she explained.
“I was like, ‘Yeah. I’m going to go back to my bed and pee in my diaper because I don’t want to walk to the damn bathroom,'” she joked.
“I actually don’t lay down here and pee in my diaper. It’s just a joke. But it feels like it’s so painful and so hard and so embarrassing.
Applegate was diagnosed with MS in early 2021.
The mother-of-one spoke candidly about how MS has affected her health and career.
In 2022, Applegate revealed that “Dead to Me” would likely be her last acting role due to her declining health.
And in March, she revealed she now had to wear diapers and had 30 brain injuries.
