After openly detailing her health battle and feeling like one of the “poster children for MS,” Applegate admitted she feared that she let people down.
“Everything that I was doing, it’s like I had a reason,” the Married…With Children actress shared. “I had a f–king reason as to why my day sucked every day. And now I don’t have a reason. It’s very unnerving and it’s really confusing for me.”
Still, Applegate isn’t giving up on her search for answers. The Anchorman alum noted she’s still doing physical therapy three times a week and that she and her medical team are going to “start the investigation” into what could be causing her symptoms.
But the toll has been more than physical as Applegate has been honest about how the diagnosis has affected her mentally and emotionally.
“Of course, I’ve gone through great depression because of it,” the 54-year-old shared. “But I lost everything. I lost my job.”
Fighting back tears, she added, “I get really emotional because it stopped my life. I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor’s offices. I can’t walk from the car to the room. I’m still in this. Nothing magical happened when she said, ‘You don’t have MS.'”
And Applegate knows that, in many ways, her journey is just beginning, noting her and her neurologist are now “starting from scratch basically to figure out what’s going on.”
As she navigates this new path, read what Applegate has shared about her health over the years.