Christina Applegate Thinking about how her battle with multiple sclerosis affects her 14-year-old daughter Sadie.
“I saw her looking at me when I was in bed, unable to move completely, or I wanted to say good night to her in her room, but no matter what, my legs didn’t work that day, I didn’t walk completely through the hallway,” Applegate, 53, “Messy” podcast. “Now, I can hardly go to the bathroom, that’s just the worst, but it’s neither here nor here. It breaks her.”
She continued: “She didn’t know that. It was like losing her mom’s changing things about this. She’s old now and I think the more I hurt her.”
Applegate explains that she and her husband Martyn LenobleBefore he got sick, the daughter’s daughter “only” knew the actress was “healthy, runner and dancer and dancer”. (Applegate and Lenoble, 56, got married in 2013.)
Sadie is “stoic” Her mother’s diagnosis In 2021, as Applegate recalls her family dealing with a new normal state in Covid Pandemic.
“We just went through Covid, without school and all this stuff, now mom can’t do everything she was able to do before, and I saw it in her eyes. I saw it,” Applegate said. “But you know what’s really beautiful? When we were out, she knew I was sad because I was so anxious about going out. She always had my arms.”
Applegate continued: “She’s been trying to help me and help me with my crutches and all of this stuff. At home, she said, ‘Can you go down and make my food’ because you’re the only one who can do it?’ She’s like, ‘You’re going to take all the steps. “I thought, ‘Sadi, I can’t go down my foot.” But I did this because I knew she was checking to make sure she could take care of me? ”
Applegate has been Talk about her fight frankly MS can affect the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves and develop symptoms of numbness, tingling, pain, fatigue, memory problems, mood changes, blindness and paralysis.
“I get up [in the morning] because [Sadie],” Applegate said in the July Siriusxm’s “Let’s Talk to Kelly Ripa’s Camera” podcast. “She’s the reason I’m still trying here. But she did say to me that we had a big event the other day – sorry Sadie, but must say – she said, “I miss who you were before you got sick.”
Applegate shares Sadi’s comment is “Knife [the] Heart,” added, “very so. Every day of my life has been such a loss. Look, now I’m going to cry. Look, this is my problem. I’m either in great pain and crying or I’m working on it. So I’m never in between. ”

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