Doctor on Christina Applegate's MS misdiagnosis
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[0:00] Actress
[0:02] Christina Applegate revealed today her
[0:04] yearslong battle with multiple scerosis
[0:07] wasn't MS at all and she was
[0:09] misdiagnosed. She made that announcement
[0:12] today on her podcast Messi, which she
[0:14] co-hosts with former Sopranos actor Jam
[0:16] Lynn Sigler, who was also diagnosed with
[0:18] MS.
[0:20] This may come as great news, but to me
[0:23] it comes as like very like I'm back at
[0:25] square one. But
[0:28] it's hard to say that she came into my
[0:30] room and she said um congratulations you
[0:35] don't have MS.
[0:37] >> Now Applegate went on to say that she is
[0:39] still in a state of shock and the news
[0:41] was very unnerving and confusing to her.
[0:44] She first went public with her diagnosis
[0:46] back in 2021 and told the New York Times
[0:48] in 2022 that she c