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Christina Applegate Says She’s “Trapped In The Darkness” Of Depression After MS Diagnosis: “I Don’t Enjoy Living”


Christina Applegate is opening up about living with depression after her MS diagnosis.

Amid her mental health struggles, Applegate said that she had booked an appointment with her therapist, “which was a big thing for me to do.” The Dead to Me star was diagnosed with MS in 2021 and said on the podcast that she has not gone to therapy because she was “afraid to start crying,” revealing she was dealing with her medical diagnosis with self-deprecation to “make people feel more comfortable about it.” “I was asked to be a Housewife for Beverly Hills,” Applegate said on the MeSsy podcast she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

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