Christina Applegate says she’s “getting stronger and better every day” after her recent hospitalisation.
“Thank you for the outpouring of love and well wishes,” she wrote in Instagram caption on Monday. “Health issues are a constant for me, but I’m a strong chick and I’m getting stronger and better every day. I’m taking a moment to focus on my health, but I’ll be back with more to say soon enough.
Applegate publicly announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August 2021 and has been open about her health struggles in the years since, especially through her memoir “You with the Sad Eyes,” released in 2026, and the podcast she cohosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has MS. Applegate’s Instagram post comes after reports recently began circulating that she had been hospitalised in late March, with outlets like the Daily Mail and Page Six reporting that those close to her were preparing for the worst.
Best known for starring in the family sitcom “Married… with Children,” which ran on Fox for 11 seasons from 1987 to 197, Applegate has retired from acting while dealing with her MS. The comedic thriller series “Dead to Me” was her final role; Season 3 began filming just before she received her diagnosis and was released in 2022. In an interview with Variety that year, she said she was “sleeping all the time” while shooting Season 3 and had to use a wheelchair to get to set. “I had to call everybody and be like, ‘I have multiple sclerosis guys. Like, what the fuck!’ And then it was about kind of learning — all of us learning — what I was going to be capable of doing.”
From Variety US