Christina Applegate Tears Up During First Appearance Post MS Diagnosis

Applegate first shared the news of her diagnosis on Twitter, where she described the experience as a “strange journey.” She told Variety that the diagnosis arrived when she was filming the third and final season of Netflix’s Dead to Me.

“I had to call everybody and be like, ‘I have multiple sclerosis guys. Like, what the f–k!'” she said. “And then it was about kind of learning—all of us learning—what I was going to be capable of doing.”

Upon hearing of her medical diagnosis, the showrunners proposed “calling the plug,” but Applegate was determined to carry on.

“But I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no: We have to finish this story. It’s too important to our hearts; too important to our souls,'” she said. “So, if that meant me having to take a break in the middle of the day so I could go sleep—or me just leaving because I couldn’t do anymore—then that’s what we had to do.”

Dead to Me season three hits Netflix on Nov. 17.