Christina Applegate Has Been Playing a 'Character' in Public for 40 Years | 274I49C | 2024-03-13 23:08:02
Christina Applegate is lastly ready to introduce herself.
The actress, 52, has a brand new podcast with Jamie-Lynn Sigler referred to as "MeSsy," by which each ladies get candid about dwelling with multiple sclerosis. For Applegate, it represents a serious shift.
"I've been enjoying a personality referred to as Christina for 40 years, who I needed everyone to assume I used to be because it's easier," Applegate informed Robin Roberts during a Wednesday, March 13, appearance on Good Morning America. "But that is type of my coming-out get together."
Applegate has been a popular culture fixture since first appearing as Kelly Bundy on Married … With Youngsters when she was solely 15 years previous. As she defined, nevertheless, she's been enjoying a task offscreen as properly.
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"This is the individual I've been this entire time," she stated. "I used to be type of putting on a bit act for everybody for therefore long."
Applegate defined she had been targeted on being "mild" and "funny," ensuring she wasn't causing anybody in her orbit to "really feel uncomfortable."
As she advised Roberts, "I don't care anymore."
It was a change that cohost Sigler, 42, observed instantly.
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"After we recorded our first episode and we listened to it," she stated, "the very first thing I did was call her and I was like, 'I am so excited for individuals to get to know this Christina.'"
Sigler, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2002 when she was simply 20 years previous, stated she's excited about Applegate finally letting her guard down — and being there together with her pal every step of the best way.
"I simply really feel like I've a entrance row seat for — I know it's onerous and I know it's onerous to see — however a very lovely chapter for her," Sigler advised Roberts, 63. "I really consider that."
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Applegate was diagnosed with MS in 2021, but she revealed she probably had an undiagnosed model for "six or seven years," which coincided together with her time on Netflix's Lifeless to Me.
"The first season, we'd be capturing and I might buckle," she explained. "My leg would buckle. I really just put it off as being tired or [being] dehydrated or it's the weather."
With the podcast, Applegate is hoping to jump-start a dialogue and a group, so listeners can really feel seen and heard, "even if they're not going by way of MS."
The first episode of "MeSsy" drops March 19.
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