Christina Applegate has told the multiple sclerosis (MS) community that she’s still their “warrior” - despite being misdiagnosed with the autoimmune condition herself.
The 54-year-old actress returned to her and Jamie Lynn Sigler’s MeSsy podcast to offer an update to her followers, after saying that she hadn’t “gotten better” after the misdiagnosis.
However, Christina said in the new episode that her listeners are still her “people”, adding: “Even though I don’t have this disease, I have fallen in love with everyone that we know—listeners and our friends—that have MS and I’m still your warrior.”
The Lie to Me star went on to insist that she will always advocate for MS sufferers.
She said: “I’m still going to speak out on your behalf for ever and ever. I still feel like part of this community. No matter what, I love you.”
Following the misdiagnosis, Christina said she felt as though she had “let everybody down”.
She told Jamie: “It's this weird feeling because I became this, you and I: the poster children for MS.
“Everything I was doing, I had a reason. I had a f****** reason as to why my day sucked every day. And now I don't have a reason.
“It's very unnerving, and it's very confusing for me.”
Christina’s medical team are now attempting to work out what is actually going on with the actress, while the screen star said she has ended up doubting her own symptoms in the days following the misdiagnosis.
She sighed: “I’m sitting here having slept all day yesterday feeling like absolute crap because of the heat. My legs aren't working.
“All the same stuff is happening to me. And yet I have this thing of like, 'Well, you don't have that, so maybe you're faking it' in my head.”
Christina - who was audibly emotional during the podcast - also admitted being told that she doesn’t have MS left her in a “great depression”.
She said: "I lost everything. I lost my job. What do you say to someone who’s been living with this for six years — God, I’m so sorry — because it stopped my life. I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor’s office.
“I can’t walk from the car to the room. I’m still in this. Nothing magical happened when she said, ‘You don’t have MS.’ Nothing magical happened."