Selma Blair sends support to Christina Applegate over shared multiple sclerosis diagnosis
‘Loving you always,’ Blair tweeted to ‘The Sweetest Thing’ actor
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Your support makes all the difference.Selma Blair has offered her support to Christina Applegate, who recently revealed she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Blair, who also has MS, tweeted at the 49-year-old actor: “Loving you always. Always here. As are our kids. Beating us up with love.”
Applegate responded with a playful message to the Legally Blonde star. “I love our two weirdos,” she wrote. “They are so fun.”
Blair and Applegate appeared together in the 2002 comedy The Sweetest Thing.
Blair has a 10-year old son, Arthur, from a previous relationship with designer Jason Bleick, and Applegate has a 10-year-old daughter, Sadie, with husband Martyn LeNoble.
Applegate, who is also a breast cancer survivor, shared the news of her diagnosis on Twitter on Tuesday morning (10 August).
“Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with MS,” she wrote. “It’s been a strange journey. But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition.”
She continued: “It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some asshole blocks it.
“As one of my friends that has MS said, ‘We wake up and take the indicated action,’” she added. “And that’s what I do. So now I ask for privacy. As I go through this thing. Thank you.”
Blair revealed the details of her own diagnosis in 2018.
Writing on Instagram, she said that despite only just being diagnosed, she had been experiencing symptoms for years, leading her to believe she might have had the disease for more than a decade.
“I have Multiple Sclerosis. I am in an exacerbation,” the actor wrote at the time. “I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken GPS.”
Multiple sclerosis is a lifelong condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing a wide range of potential symptoms including vision problems, difficulties with arm and leg movement, and balance issues, according to the NHS.
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