After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August 2021, Christina Applegate says she doesn’t think she’ll ever get back in front of the camera.
“I can’t even imagine going to the site right now,” Applegate said in a new interview with CNN. Vanity Fair. “This is a progressive disease. I don’t know if it will get worse.”
Applegate’s diagnosis came while filming the third season of Netflix dead to me When the script has already completed. Although she was able to finish the final season of the series, several medical procedures and reactions to medication made it difficult for Applegate to retain her starring role as Jane Hardy. Now, she says she will focus more on doing voiceover work rather than pushing herself to work on camera.
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“I have to support my family and keep my brain working,” she added. “I miss an experience [filming on set]but at the same time, because it was such an incredible struggle this past year, I feel good that I no longer have to push so hard to get through my day.”
Applegate also opened up about how her changing appearance affected her mentally: “It’s so hard to see myself as this other person, and I don’t look like myself anymore, obviously,” she continued. “And it’s really hard for me because so much of my life has been my image, and then I see this person and I’m like, ‘Who is this person with 20 chins?'” To be really brutally honest, this is kind of hard for me to watch.”
Applegate is attached to reprise her role as Kelly Bundy in the animated reboot of Married with children. Although details are being kept under wraps for now, it’s set to reunite fellow original cast members Katey Sagal (Peggy Bundy), Ed O’Neill (Al Bundy), and David Faustino (Bud Bundy).
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