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diagnosed until 2021, she noticed mysterious symptoms two years earlier while shooting the pilot for the Netflix series “Dead to Me.”Applegate spoke about her experience on the Tuesday episode of her podcast, “Messy,” which she co-hosts with actress Jamie-LynnSigler, who also has MS. The “Married… With Children” alum had her close friend and the creator of “Dead to Me,” Liz Feldman, on when she revealed that her symptoms appeared in 2019.

“MeSsy” podcast.“That is unimaginable, OK? They’ve done every test known to man on me, put so much radiation into my body from CT scans to everything else.”Within the “last month,” the “Dead to Me” alum has been able to get to the bottom of the issue. Applegate then gave advice to the listener who wrote in and asked about these MS side effects.“Now, maybe this isn’t what’s happening, but I’m just going to tell you this.

Meredith Vieira since 1986, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 76.Cohen lived more than 50 years with multiple sclerosis and survived two cancer diagnoses.Hoda Kotb announced his death on “Today” Tuesday. The host said Cohen was “surrounded by his family and love” at the time of his passing, including Vieira, 71, and their three kids: daughter Lily, 32, and sons Gabriel 34, and Benjamin, 36.The family had been together since Thanksgiving, as Kotb noted they were “concerned they were going to lose him early.

his illicit use of the drugs.Williams, 68, detailed his past abuse of prescription narcotics while speaking with Maria Menounos on the Tuesday episode of her podcast “Heal Squad.” “As celebrities, we can get whatever we want,” he told Menounos, 46.From 1991 to 2008, the star hosted “The Montel Williams Show” and traveled around the US to promote the daytime program. While on the road, he was able to get opioids by simply calling the concierge at whatever hotel he was staying at and requesting access to a doctor. Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999 and used his condition to get drugs.

diagnosed with MS in early 2021, has been open about how the condition — which affects the brain and nerves — has affected her daily life and Hollywood career.Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of her “MeSsy” podcast, Applegate spoke with her co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also suffers from the autoimmune disease, as well as their guest of the week Rory Kandel, who also lives with the condition.“I lay in bed screaming — like, the sharp pains, the ache, that squeezing,” Applegate, 52, said.Kandel echoed a similar experience, saying she feels like she has “knives in my stomach.“I’ll be laying in bed, and I wake up, and I physically can’t turn from side to side,” she added, to which the “Married… with Children” alum responded, “Every single day of my life.”“I can’t even pick up my phone sometimes because now it’s traveled into my hands, so I’ll, like, try to go get my phone or get my remote to turn on the TV or sometimes, I can’t even hold them. I can’t open bottles now,” she went on.Applegate previously revealed that her condition has forced her to rely on the help of a cane for mobility.According to Mayo Clinic, MS causes a breakdown “of the protective covering of nerves,” which can result in numbness and difficulty moving around.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler is trying out something new.The actress revealed on “Not Today, Pal,” the podcast she co-hosts with former “Sopranos” costar Robert Iler, that she’s undergoing a “milk cleanse” – for eight days, she’s forgoing solid food and only drinking whole milk.In a conversation about food with Iler and comedian Mike Cannon, Sigler said, “You guys should hear what I’m doing right now, you’re going to think I’m crazy.”“It’s shocking,” she admitted, “because I too love food, I too love sweets – I am in the middle of something called the milk cleanse. All I’ve been drinking for days is whole milk.

Us Weekly in an interview published Wednesday. “I was so messed up and dehydrated and hungover and didn’t know I had neurological issues. I didn’t understand anything.”“It was horrifying and humiliating,” she added.

multiple sclerosis.Earlier this month, the 52-year-old actress released an episode of her “MeSsy” podcast that was recorded at the beginning of 2024 and said that she doesn’t “enjoy living” because of her MS diagnosis.“I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore,” she said. “If someone’s like, ‘Let’s get up and go for a walk.’ Or, ‘Let’s go get a coffee,’ I’m like, ‘I don’t enjoy that process.’ “But during the June 18 episode of her podcast, Applegate clarified her remarks about her mental health that concerned so many people.

multiple sclerosis.The “Dead to Me” actress, 52, said that she’s “in a depression right now” on the June 4 episode of her “MeSsy” podcast with “The Sopranos” alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has MS. “Like a real, f–k it all depression where it’s kind of scaring me to a little bit because it feels really fatalistic,” Applegate continued.

Christina Applegate was once asked to star in “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — but declined the role. “I was asked to be a Housewife for ‘Beverly Hills,’ ” Applegate, 52, told her “MeSsy” podcast co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler on Tuesday. “They asked me to be one probably … 10 years ago, I would say?”The “Married … With Children” alum said she turned down the spot on the highly successful show because she felt that she wouldn’t bring enough of the drama that was required.“I wouldn’t have shown up for any dinners.

multiple sclerosis battle.The 52-year-old “Dead to Me” actress revealed on her “MeSsy” podcast that the pain of the disease has made it difficult to tolerate bathing herself, so she’s slacking on her personal hygiene. “I’m gonna be honest with you, I need to buy stock in Cottonelle because I haven’t taken a shower in three weeks,” Applegate told her co-host,Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

“Dead to Me” star revealed on the “Armchair Expert” podcast with co-hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman that she is in constant pain thanks to the autoimmune disorder. “I have 30 lesions on my brain,” Applegate claimed on Monday’s episode. “My biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot.”The “Married … With Children” alum also shared that sometimes “my hand starts to go weird and then I’ll get a seizure-y feeling sometimes in my brain.”“It sucks,” the mother of one added.

her battle with multiple sclerosis. The actress, who has hinted at retiring amid her health struggles, was diagnosed in 2021.The “Married… With Children” alum, 52, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 42, who also has MS, sat down with People where they spoke about the highs and lows of the disease. Applegate explained that she lost 30 pounds recently after initially gaining 45 as her illness progressed.When she made her surprise Emmys appearance in January, she joked that her “body [was] not by Ozempic.”The “Hall Pass” actress told the outlet she was questioned if she lost weight by using the diabetes drug.

appearance on “Good Morning America,” Christina Applegate, 52, and her friend “Sopranos” alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 42, sat down with Robin Roberts.“My symptoms had started in the early part of 2021, and it was, like, literally just tingling on my toes,” Applegate said.“And by the time we started shooting in the summer of that same year, I was being brought to set in a wheelchair. Like, I couldn’t walk that far,” she added, referring to her Netflix show “Dead To Me,” which ran for three seasons on Netflix, from 2019 to 2022. Applegate revealed that she had been diagnosed with MS in 2021 while filming that series.

in a teaser clip for an upcoming interview on “Good Morning America.” “I live kind of in hell. I’m not out a lot, so this is a little difficult, just for my system,” Applegate, 52, told “GMA” host Robin Roberts, 63, regarding her continued battle.“But of course, the support is wonderful and I’m really grateful.”The “Married … With Children” star, who was joined in the interview by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, also poked fun at her appearance on the January awards show.

Emmy Awards Monday night.The “Married… With Children” alum, 52, became emotional as she received a standing ovation from the crowd whilst up on stage amid her multiple sclerosis battle.Schaech — who was married to the “Anchorman” actress from 2001 to 2007 — praised Applegate’s courage to walk the stage despite her health woes.“She danced opening night on Broadway on a broken foot! Beat cancer! She’s the toughest human being I’ve ever met! F–k MS! So proud of her! Go, Christina!” he wrote on X in response to a story about Applegate’s standing ovation at the event.Schaech later uploaded a screenshot of his tweet on his Instagram Story and shared a video of his ex-wife in her stunning Christian Siriano gown.“We are so proud of you, Christina,” he added.Applegate paired her cane with a gorgeous red gown to present the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series to Ayo Edebiri for “The Bear.”As she walked up to the stage, Applegate joked that her body was “not by Ozempic.”The “Dead To Me” alum, who has been married to Dutch musician Martyn LeNoble since 2013, was diagnosed with MS in early 2021 and remained open about how the condition — which affects the brain and nerves — forced her to pump the brakes on her acting career.Her MS diagnosis came in tandem with the third and final season of the hit Netflix show, in which she starred opposite Linda Cardellini.In an interview with Variety, Applegate opened up on being diagnosed with the disease while in the middle of filming. “I didn’t know what was happening to me,” she said in 2022.

Abbey Clancy went to see a doctor convinced she was seriously ill — but it turned out her jeans were just too tight.The British model opened up about her experience of health anxiety in a podcast appearance this week.Clancy, 37, said she had amassed “like five doctor friends” — parents at her kids’ schools — over her constant worrying.Her symptoms included painful numbness around her groin that she became sure was multiple sclerosis (MS), a condition affecting the brain and spinal cord that can cause problems with vision, arm or leg movement, sensation and balance.When she started to feel the numbness in her lower body, she googled her symptoms and grew worried when they seemed to suggest MS.Clancy tapped up a “top MS doctor” to find out what was going on but the news was surprising.“It’s when I had these jeans on,” she explained to the Newlyweds podcast.“They were so tight they would stop the blood where I was sitting down.”Thankfully, the doctor ruled out MS but diagnosed Clancy with another condition — health anxiety.“I’d been holding (anxiety) in so much that when I got to the doctor, I went hysterical and couldn’t stop crying,” she said.“He was like, ‘You haven’t got MS but you’ve got a mental health issue.”Health anxiety, also known as hypochondria, is a mental illness similar to obsessive compulsive disorder. Those affected spend a lot of time worrying that they are ill, sometimes to the point where it takes over their life.Symptoms of the condition may include worrying and checking your body for signs of illness, such as lumps, tingling, or pain.People with health anxiety may always seek reassurance from others that they are not sick or convince themselves that a doctor or test may have missed something.

told Entertainment Weekly.“We will always remember our dear Arleen for her immense generosity of spirit,” the family said in a statement. “Talented, yes, and dogged, too, as evidenced by her tenacious, decades-long fight with a terrible disease.”“But more than that, she was a loving presence in the lives of her two boys, Eli and Owen; her mother, Joyce; her brothers, Robert and Arthur; and the countless other children, old and young, whom she took under her beautiful wing over the years.”The statement continued by saying that while her passing was sad, it was “a joyous one, too, knowing how many people today are summoning her memory and smiling.”Sorkin made her TV debut as an extra in “Saturday Night Live” in 1982 but her breakthrough role came in 1984 when she appeared as Calliope Jones Bradford on the popular soap opera, “Days of Our Lives.”The gig earned her two Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress and she went on to reprise the role several times.In 1992, Sorkin made her voice-acting debut as Harley Quinn in an episode of “Batman: The Animated Series.”According to showrunners, fans loved the wise-cracking henchwoman so much that Sorkin was invited to return for eight more episodes as well as being invited to voice the character in several video game adaptations.Since her debut, Harley Quinn has become a DC staple and has spawned two live-action films where she is portrayed by Oscar nominee Margot Robbie as well as getting her own animated series on Max where she is voiced by Kaley Cuoco.

Janice Dean has shared a special message about her battle with multiple sclerosis on World MS Day.“I wanted to, you know, let you know that MS really doesn’t present itself in a lot of ways,” Dean said in a powerful video posted to Twitter on Tuesday.“I call it the ‘invisible illness,’ the ‘My, you look so well’ disease because we can be looking fine, I got my hair and makeup done, but inside of us, our body is attacking its central nervous system, the brain and the spine,” she continued.Dean was diagnosed with the neurological disease in 2005.She revealed that, on this World MS Day, she has actually been feeling a flare-up of symptoms as of late. “Yesterday, I felt almost like a sunburn sensation at the back of my neck.

“And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” in her Tony-winning role as Effie White in “Dreamgirls,” Jennifer Holliday is still here, folks.But now her signature number has a completely different meaning for the 62-year-old diva, who has overcome weight struggles, career setbacks and a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 1999.“When I first sang it, I was 19 going on 20 years old,” Holliday told The Post. “And as I became a young woman and then a real woman and then a grown-ass woman, the song took on different meanings. It’s a song of survival today.