Christina Applegate Talks Depression Battle Over MS, ‘Trapped In Darkness’

Christina Applegate‘s at all times been open about her MS struggles … and now she’s additionally revealing her battle with deep despair, which has left her with no pleasure in residing.

On the most recent ‘MeSsy’ podcast episode, Christina advised her buddy Jamie-Lynn Sigler her present bout of despair — which hit after her 2021 multiple sclerosis diagnosis — is so intense it is one thing she hasn’t skilled in years.

Hear it out in her personal phrases … she describes it “like a real, f*** it all depression where it’s kind of scaring me too a little bit because it feels really fatalistic. I’m trapped in like this darkness right now that I haven’t felt like … I don’t even know how long, probably 20-something years.”

The brand new episode was recorded not lengthy after Christina’s surprise appearance on the Emmys in January … which she referred to as the toughest day of her life and talked about how she did not sleep for two days afterward due to the toll MS took on her physique.

“This is being really honest … I don’t enjoy living. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore,” Christina candidly added.

CA additional reiterated the challenges of residing in a disabled physique, particularly when she in contrast it to how she was.

Regardless of her psychological well being battle, Christina acknowledged she’s kinda accepted life’s going to be this manner, and MS was not a motive to cease residing — including to Jamie-Lynn, “I sit here across from you, and you still make me laugh like nobody else can. You still make me smile. You make me feel loved.”

Christina is not new to tackling powerful matters … on prime of her MS, she’s opened up about her past eating disorder, abdomen bugs and extra — however despair is undoubtedly one of the vital critical matters she’s lined.