In an interview from March 2024 on Good morning AmericaApplegate revealed further details about her MS diagnosis, as she was reportedly experiencing symptoms probably six or seven years before her condition was diagnosed.
“I noticed it, especially the first season [of Dead to Me]“We would shoot and my leg would give out,” she said. ‘I actually just chalked it up to being tired, or I’m dehydrated, or it’s the weather. Then nothing happened for months and I didn’t pay attention.”
The Grand larceny Parsons star revealed that the strange tingling sensation in her toes helped her pay attention. From there, Selma Blair – who was also diagnosed with MS in 2018 – urged her to get tested.
“I said, ‘Really? The odds? That doesn’t happen to two people from the same movie,'” she told her Sweetest thing Co-star. “If she hadn’t been there, it could have been a lot worse.”