Selma Blair Shares Powerful Message on Strength for MS Awareness Month

In 2019, Blair underwent a stem-cell transplant—which, according to Vanity Fair, required her to stop taking her MS medication, go through a round of chemotherapy, have the transplant and then isolate at a hospital.

But last year, the Legally Blonde alum shared the good news. “My prognosis is great,” she said during a Television Critics Association panel last August, per the Associated Press. “I’m in remission.”

According to the AP, Blair said “it took about a year after stem cell for the inflammation and lesions to really go down,” leading her to hold off on sharing the news right away because she “felt this need to be more healed.” However, she told the news organization she doesn’t have any new lesions forming. 

“There’s still maintenance, treatment and glitches, and wonderful things,” Blair continued. “Cognitively, I’m very changed and that’s been the harder part.”