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Christina Applegate shares hilariously candid response about finding out she had multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2021. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Christina Applegate used her trademark humor to describe how she felt getting “that call” from her doctor diagnosing her with multiple sclerosis (MS).<\/p>\n

“Can I say it sucked balls?” the 51-year-old actress declared on Wednesday’s The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Applegate learned she had MS while filming the latest season of Netflix’s Dead to Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“There’s four different kinds of MS so not everyone is the same. Everyone’s symptoms are different, everyone’s experience with it is different,” Applegate prefaced to Clarkson.<\/p>\n

“Shooting the show was the hardest thing I’d ever done in my life because I was diagnosed during shooting. I didn’t know what was happening to me,” the Married With Children<\/em> alum continued. “I couldn’t walk. They had to use a wheelchair to get me to set. I was freaking out until someone was like ‘You need an MRI.’ And then, I found out on a Monday after work that I had MS, you know, a disease that I am going to have for the rest of my life.”<\/p>\n

Looking back, Applegate realized she had “very small symptoms” four years prior to an official diagnosis. The actress had a weak leg and felt very tired on set. She previously spoke about dealing with balance issues.<\/p>\n

“It presented itself a few years ago,” Applegate shared.<\/p>\n

Applegate made her first public appearance since revealing her MS diagnosis on. Nov. 14 when she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was set to receive the honor in 2020, but it got pushed due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

“Now my life is a different story,” Applegate told variety<\/em>. “People are going to see me for the first time as a disabled person, and it’s very difficult. So, for me, two years ago would have been so much better!”<\/p>\n

Applegate shared her health news with the world in Aug. 2021, saying she had learned about it just a couple months prior. Production on the third and final season of Dead to Me <\/em>was halted for five months. However the cast and crew, including Applegate’s on and off screen best friend, Linda Cardellini, rally around her to finish the shoot.<\/p>\n