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Christina Applegate addresses her ‘I don’t enjoy living’ comment amid MS battle

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Updated 15:20 20 Jun 2024 GMT+1Published 15:21 20 Jun 2024 GMT+1

Christina Applegate addresses her ‘I don’t enjoy living’ comment amid MS battle

The star has clarified what she meant after making the concerning comment

Kit Roberts

Kit Roberts

Christina Applegate has spoken out since her making a comment about how no longer 'enjoys living'.

Applegate, 52, opened up about her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis (MS), saying 'I don't enjoy living' in a concerning comment.

Speaking in an episode of her podcast MeSsy, Applegate opened up about her mental health, saying: "This is being really honest. I don't enjoy living. I don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy things anymore.

"If someone's like, let's get up and go for a walk and or let's go get a coffee… I don't enjoy that process."

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She added: "What makes it harder is when you compare it to how it used to be. I'm in a depression right now, which I don't think I've felt that for, like, years.

"Like a real f**k-it-all depression, like real depression, where it's kind of scaring me too a little bit, because it feels really fatalistic… I'm trapped in this darkness right now that I haven't felt like that in, I don't even know how long, probably 20-something years."

Now, Applegate has spoken up since making the remark.

Christina Applegate has opened up about her mental health. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Christina Applegate has opened up about her mental health. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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She clarified that despite struggling with her mental health, she is not 'sitting here on suicide watch' in a subsequent episode of MeSsy.

“I was talking about some dark stuff that I was thinking and feeling,” said Applegate. “There’s so much shame a lot of people feel when they’re going through mental health issues.”

She went on to say that not vocalising certain dark thoughts and emotions gives them 'immense power'.

Meanwhile, choosing to share them with others can be 'incredibly healing'.

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She said: “By making such a big deal about it you’re making other people think, ‘Oh, s**t-, I can’t talk about this’. And that is not OK with me.

The actor has since addressed her concerning remarks. (Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
The actor has since addressed her concerning remarks. (Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

“It’s important to be able to say these things. And, no, I’m not sitting here on suicide watch, OK? I am not. Nor have I ever been.”

Applegate has previously opened up about how profoundly MS has impacted her life, which has included having a large impact on her mobility.

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She has also described some of the 'tiny signs' which led to her being diagnosed with the condition.

Speaking on Good Morning America, she said: "My symptoms had started in the early part of 2021, and it was, like, literally just tingling on my toes.

"And by the time we started shooting in the summer of that same year, I was being brought to set in a wheelchair. Like, I couldn’t walk that far."

Featured Image Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association/Phillip Faraone/Getty Images

Topics: Celebrity, Health, Mental Health, Christina Applegate

Kit Roberts
Kit Roberts

Kit joined UNILAD in 2023 as a community journalist. They have previously worked for StokeonTrentLive, the Daily Mirror, and the Daily Star.

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