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Actress Christina Applegate has revealed her bucket list items for her remaining days during her battle with multiple sclerosis.
The star has been candid about the challenges of life with MS — a chronic condition that occurs when the body’s immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord — since her diagnosis in 2021.
Applegate was diagnosed while filming the Netflix show Dead To Me, calling it “a strange journey”.
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Now, the actress has shared the ideal ways she would like to spend her final days.
“There are things I want to do with the days I have left in life,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“I want to work with Shirley MacLaine and do shots with Cher!
“And yes, my days are so big. Just saying.”
Since going public with her diagnosis, Applegate has been opened up about life with the condition on her MeSsy podcast co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also has MS.
Earlier this year, she detailed how debilitating MS can be during a “relapse” phase.
She described having “intense pain” in her legs and not being able to walk to the bathroom without feeling like she was going to fall over.
“(It was) insane tingling that just has spurts of tingles that are weird, coming from, like, my butt down,” Applegate told the podcast.
It was during these times her mental and physical health took a toll, she said.
“You do all the wrong things, and you just lay in a dark room watching TV, wanting it all to go away,” Applegate said.
One of the hardest things was watching her 13-year-old daughter Sadie’s reaction to the changes she was seeing in her mum, she told People in a March interview.
“She’s had to see the loss of her mum, in the way that I was a mum with her,” she said.
“Dancing with her every day. Picking her up from school every day.
“Working at her school, working in the library.
“Being present out of the house, out of my bed.
“She doesn’t see those things anymore. This is a loss for her as well.
“And we’re both learning as we’re going along.”
