By Variety on NBC News
The actress Christina Applegate, winner of an Emmy award, communicated that she suffers from multiple sclerosis through a message on the social network Twitter late Monday night.
"Hello friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It has been a strange journey. But I have received a lot of support from people I know who also have this disease. It has been a hard road. But, as we all know, the road continues its course . Unless some idiot blocks it, "wrote the interpreter, 49 years old.
"As one of my friends who has multiple sclerosis said: 'We get up and take the right action.' And that's what I do. So now I ask for privacy. While I'm going through this. Thank you," Applegate added.
Applegate won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2003 for
Friends
.
She was nominated in the same category and for the same series in 2004. In 2008 and 2009, Applegate was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy for
Samantha Who?
.
In 2019 and 2020, he was again up for the same award for
Dead to Me
.
The actress also competed for the Golden Globe for best actress in a television series - musical or comedy - for
Dead to Me
,
Samantha Who?
and
Jesse
.
She has also been nominated multiple times for the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) and the People's Choice Awards.
Applegate rose to fame as a teenager with the comedy
Married ... with Children
.
Her best-known film roles are
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
(1991),
The Big Hit
(1998),
The Sweetest Thing
(2002),
Grand Theft Parsons
(2003), and
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
(2004).
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In 2008, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy.
After overcoming the disease, she created the Right Action for Women Foundation to promote and fund MRIs and other forms of early detection.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing vision problems and affecting arm or leg mobility, sensation, or balance. It is treatable in most cases, although life expectancy is slightly reduced. It is two or three times more common in women than in men.
