Robins exclusive conversation with Christina Applegate and Jamie Lynn Sing. You showed a bit of it to us yesterday. What a powerful friendship. It’s such a special special friendship as Rebecca and you both said. Christina says that Jamie has allowed her to be honest with others and more importantly with herself about her emotions facing MS and that openness has helped her cope.

Christina to your left. After four decades in the spotlight, this morning, Christina Applegate with good friend Jaime Lynn Sigler by her side. She’s doing this cuz I have the the tremor. So, she’s Well, it’s because I love her. Candid about her life since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021.

 Do you feel the love, Christina? I mean, yes. Yes. I I live kind of in hell. That raw honesty infused with humor carrying her through. And when we saw you last at the Emmys presenting and I can I just say the emotions that I felt when you came out on that stage. Thank you so much. Oh my god, you’re totally shaming me with disability by standing up. It’s fine. Okay.

 Um, were you able to take in the moment, the standing ovation and everything? Yeah, I was really I actually kind of blacked out. Um, and I people said, “Oh, you were so funny.” And I’m like, “I don’t even know what I said.” and I felt really beloved and it was really a beautiful thing. Then I’m just going to say this, that audience stood up for everybody.

Come on. There’s something I have to confess. The seventime Emmy nominee was filming the final season of her Netflix show Dead to Me when she noticed something was wrong. 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. So I had to tell everybody because I needed help, you know? I needed someone to help me stand and I needed someone to help. Sorry. I needed someone to help me to get there. Okay. and they were wonderful. But I probably had it for many, many years. When you first had, wouldn’t it? How long do you think you had it without realizing? Six or seven years, I think. Yeah.

 I think I’ve noticed especially the first season we’d be shooting and I would like buckle like my my leg would buckle. I really just kind of put it off as as being tired or I’m dehydrated or it’s the weather or you know and then nothing would happen for like months and I didn’t pay attention. But when it hit this hard to pay attention, she credits her former co-star and good friend Selma Blair for urging her to get tested for MS.

Whatever happened to my cool, confident roommate? That’s a big facade. Blair was also diagnosed with a degenerative disease of the central nervous system in 2018. She goes, “You need to be checked for MS.” I said, “No, really, the odds, the two of us from the same movie, come on. That’s not going to be that doesn’t happen.

” She knew. She encouraged you to. She if if not for her, it could have been way worse. It’s like the sisterhood. Yeah. a sisterhood that you don’t really want to be a part of. Jaime was starring in The Sopranos when she was diagnosed with MS at just 20 years old. Believe it or not, the world doesn’t revolve around you.

The two have bonded over their shared disease, supporting each other through its unique challenges. You’re in different places and you’re helping each other because I love how you’ve given her permission to go, “This sucks.” And you didn’t used to. You wouldn’t say that before. Never. She keeps me going because I’m the one who’s like, you know, I’m flipping the bird all day long at this thing and I’m angry.

 I’m really really pissed. You know, I was a dancer and a runner and I got all these things and that I love and a mom and and it’s like and she’s like, “Okay, I have you and you are going to be okay.” Like life, you’re going to be okay. And and if not for her, I don’t really honestly don’t know.

 M for so long I’ve been celebrated for being the strong one and the positive one that it it felt like I was not that if I would admit that some days were hard. But she is really pushed me to be able to say that because I would thought I was letting people down if I would talk about how hard it was sometimes. And it sucks. Yeah, it sucks. It’s not my favorite disease.

 I’ve had a couple. It’s not my favorite one. Are you still in a grieving process? Mhm. I’m not putting a time stamp on it. Yeah. I don’t think it ends. Yeah. I’m never going to wake up and go, “This is awesome.” No, I’m just going to tell you that. Like, it’s just not going to happen. I wake up and I’m reminded of it every day.

 So, there’s it’s not going to happen. But I might get to a place where I will function a little bit better. Right now, I’m isolating. And that’s kind of how I’m dealing with it is by like not going anywhere because I don’t want to do it. It’s hard. They call it the invisible disease, you know, but it’s can be very lonely. Yeah.

 Cuz it’s hard to explain to people, you know, like like I’m in excruciating pain, but I’m just used to it now. There’s this little bit of hope that maybe one day we won’t live with this, you know? It’s hard to let them. I’m wait. That’s why I’m sleeping. I don’t want someone to just wake me up when it’s over. Just wake me up when we can be like, you’re good. Thank you.

 The two friends are launching a podcast, Messy. So, this is our conversation about stuffs, where they will welcome their famous friends and co-stars to get real about the messiness of life. You’re really easedropping on an intimate conversation. That’s all it is. And to me, those are my favorite podcasts where you feel like you just got to like somehow listen in on a conversation with people.

 There’s no format, no agenda, no questions that we’re coming and it’s messy. It’s for sure a mess. What is it that you want people Why should they listen? I think one to to feel seen if they’re going through this to feel heard even if it’s not MS. You know, I’ve been playing a character called Christina for 40 years. you know who I wanted everybody to think I was because it’s easier.

 But like this is I it’s kind of my coming out party. Yeah. Like this is who this is the person I’ve been this whole time. I said that to her from day one because I was I was kind of putting on a little a little act for everybody for so long and and because I didn’t I just thought that was easier to be light, be funny, be light, don’t make people feel uncomfortable and I don’t care anymore.

 So that’s that’s kind of what this is. After we recorded our first episode and we listened to it, the first thing I did was call her and I was like, I am so excited for people to get to know this Christina. I just feel like I have a front row seat for I know it’s hard and I know it’s hard to see, but like a really beautiful chapter for her. I really believe that.

 Well, Christina Applegate, it’s nice to finally meet you again. Yes. Yes. Nice to finally meet you finally meet you. Yeah. But I really did feel as many times as I’ve been around her, I was I was meeting Christina for the first time in many ways. And many people have been asking, will she act again? It’s a tough question for her.

 As you can tell, she’s her initial response is no. And she has struggled so much physically, but it’s keep in mind it’s all she’s ever known. Do you know her first on camera credit came at just three months old on the soap oper? So this is all that she’s ever known. Jamie says she’s got a role for she’s got an idea for a show, but Christina is like, you know, one step at a time.

 One one step at a time. Hear from so many people, families who are going through this and it’s different for everyone. And that’s what they really signify because they’re at different stages where they are right now. And we’re going to have so much more about these two. And you can see it tonight on Night Line.

 And then their first episode of their honest, funny, and moving podcast. I’ve heard many of them. Messy. It drops next Tuesday, March 19th. Wherever you get your podcast and whether or not you have MS, there’s a message in this podcast. Messy. Oh, we can see that. Thank you for that, Robin. Well, hey there GMA fans. Robin Roberts here. Thanks for checking out our YouTube channel. Lots of great stuff here.

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