Multiple sclerosis has an increasing impact on Christina Applegate: “Part of the brain damaged”

The actress who rose to fame as Kelly Bundy in Married with children, was diagnosed three years ago. But the consequences are becoming more and more severe.

Multiple sclerosis is a condition in which the immune system attacks the body and causes nerve damage to the brain and spinal cord.

The now 52-year-old actress just announced that she has thirty lesions, which are locations in the brain tissue that have been damaged in recent years as a result of MS. “My biggest lesion is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot,” she sighs. “Every day is a torture of pain. It’s the worst thing that could have happened to me.” Her vision is still intact for the time being, but there are also other side effects. “My hand sometimes acts strangely, and soon afterwards I get a feeling of attack in the brain.”

Yet she does not always want to change her life. “I’d rather go to bed than stretch my muscles when I’m faced with pain,” she says. “It’s a shitty feeling. I hate it so much. I am very angry because it cannot be overcome.”

Previously, the actress overcame breast cancer. To achieve this, she had to have both breasts amputated in 2008. She then also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in 2017 as a precaution against ovarian cancer.

(tove)