Christina Applegate shares teen daughter's hurtful words amid MS battle

Christina Applegate has shared the hurtful words her teenage daughter said to her recently, amid her ongoing battle with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Applegate, 53, who is mum to daughter Sadie, 14, recalled a recent difficult conversation they had.

"We got into a big thing the other day – and sorry Sadie, but it has to be said – she said, 'I miss who you were before you got sick,'" the actress told Kelly Ripa on her podcast Let's Talk Off Camera.

Watch the video above. 

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"That is just like a knife to the heart because I miss who I was before I got sick too, very much so, every day of my life. It's such a loss," the Married With Children star said.

Mother and daughter remain close – despite their struggles – with Sadie accompanying her mother to public events.

There have been times where Sadie has also physically supported her mum and stepped up as needed. 

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This included accompanying her mother to the to the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2023, and the unveiling of Applegate's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022.

Despite any tensions, Applegate credits her daughter with giving her the motivation to continue on.

"She's the reason I'm still here and trying," Applegate said.

The Dead to Me star shares Sadie with husband Martyn LeNoble. The couple are also parents to LeNoble's daughter Marlon from a previous relationship.

Applegate, who was diagnosed with MS in 2021 after experiencing symptoms for years, co-hosts her own podcast with fellow actress and MS sufferer Jamie Lynn Sigler called MeSsy.

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It was just before she started filming the final season of Dead to Me, that she realised something was wrong, with her early symptoms being a "tingling in [her] toes," she said on Good Morning America.

"By the time we started shooting in the [American] summer of [2021], I was being brought to set in a wheelchair, like, I couldn't walk that far," she said, clearing her throat.

"So, I had to tell everybody, because I needed help. I needed somebody to help me stand," she said, before pausing and apologising through tears, looking to Sigler for reassurance. 

"And they were wonderful. But I probably had it for many, many years," she continued, before elaborating that she believes she had it for six or seven years before her 2021 diagnosis.

Applegate also explained that she initially isolated herself, which put greater significance on her Emmys appearance in 2024.

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"I actually kind of blacked out... people said, 'Oh, you were so funny', and I don't even know what I said. And I felt really beloved and it was really a beautiful thing," she said of her moment on the awards show stage.

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Published Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:07:00 GMT