Ever since she was a young actress, work has been the outlet that Christina Applegate relies on to distract herself from the challenges of life that she regularly faces.
Christina Applegate readily admits that she’s always been the type to drown herself in work to forget the pains of real life, whether it’s difficult breakups or her diagnosis of breast cancer in 2008. But whenhe was found to have multiple sclerosis in 2021, she says she finally had a stage where she could, for the first time, “break down” and grieve in one scene, and it turned out “cathartic”. “I’ve probably been through heartache and trauma all my life, and acting was where I could go to not feel that, you know?”said the 51-year-old actress on the set of Kelly Clarkson Show. When she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Christina Applegate says she was in the middle of filming her hit series, Dead to Me, to see on Netflix. And, for once, she allowed herself to grieve in her work.
“A forum to deal with the situation”
“The beauty of Dead to Meis that he gave me this strange platform to deal with the situation”explained the actress, who welcomes: “I didn’t have to be in good shape all the time, or make jokes, and I could crumble in a scene. It was my soul collapsing, unfortunately, in front of the whole world, but it was a catharsis in a beautiful way.” Christina Applegate says she didn’t just rely on work to take her mind off things. She also relied on humor. To divert attention, of course, but also to comfort those around you.
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“Making Dead to Me was the hardest thing I had to do in my life”
Christina Applegate, who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Novemberalso opened up about the physical challenges of filming the Netflix series. “Turn [Dead to Me] was the hardest thing I had to do in my life”she said. “I was diagnosed during filming and I didn’t know what was happening to me. I couldn’t walk. They had to use a wheelchair to bring me to the set. I was panicking until someone one says to me: “You need an MRI””remembers the actress.
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