Christina Applegate had to change her life because of her illness

Heavily suffering from multiple sclerosis, American actress Christina Applegate, one of the heroines of the Netflix series Dead to meexplained how the disease forced her to change her life.

From its beginnings in Married, two children up to his roles in fictions such as jesse, Samantha who?, Up All Night and more recently dead to me, Christina Applegate has distinguished herself over the years as an outstanding actress. Only, the fate of the 51-year-old actress has tragically changed during the year 2021. While the series dead to medirected by Liz Feldman, met with real success on the Netflix platform, viewers were surprised to know that the latter had abruptly ended. And it wasn’t until a short time later that fans found out the real reason for the curtain down: the fictional lead actress, Christina Applegate, has multiple sclerosis.

“I have to feed my daughter”

Struck by disease, Christina Applegate sees her personal and professional daily life turned upside down from all sides. And it’s in the columns of the Los Angeles Times that the heroine dead to me told : “Right now, I couldn’t imagine getting up at 5 a.m. and spending twelve to fourteen hours on set. I don’t have that in me right now.“And if his body no longer allows him to frequent film sets, the 51-year-old actress does not intend to give up on Hollywood ! Very involved in productionshe also considered “do a shitty voiceover to make money“for the one and only purpose of”to make sure that [s]the daughter is fed” and has a roof over his head.

“It’s a big problem”

If the actress has no other choice than to come to terms with the limits imposed on her by her illness, theFrustration and sadness are not alleviated. Nominated for the next Screen Actors Guild Awards for the last role of her career, Christina Applegate made a rather bitter observation: “It probably is my last awards show as an actressso it’s a big problem.” But the difficulties encountered during the filming of the last episodes of dead to meon which she moved in a wheelchair, brought her back to the reality of her health!

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