Christina Applegate's co-star shares update on star amid battle with MS
David Faustino starred alongside Christina Applegate on Married... With Children and he recently updated people on how she was doing.
You may remember the Anchorman star was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), an incurable condition that affects the brain and spinal cord and gives people a wide range of problems including mobility issues, fatigue and issues with vision.
Applegate said that the health issues from MS 'are a constant for me', explaining that she first started experiencing symptoms in 2016 years before her official diagnosis.
"There are just certain things that people take for granted in their lives that I took for granted," she said of how her life had changed due to MS.
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“Going down the stairs, carrying things - you can’t do that anymore.”
Faustino played her brother on the show Married... With Children and he recently spoke about Applegate to Us Weekly about his admiration for her and how she still maintained the 'dry, sarcastic sense of humour since the moment I met her'.
He said: "I admire her being strong in the face of this, even though it's been a real blow.
"It's been very hard for her, but she does keep her humour.
"Nothing has changed… She gets through this with some humour, and that's kind of her way that she moves through it."
Faustino said he tried to give Applegate as much support as possible as he was 'a person on her team that gives her as much love as I can'.
The actor said they kept in regular contact and he visits her often, while they still have a laugh together when they see each other.
He said: "I do a lot of visits with her. A lot of texting, a lot of checking in. A lot of funny just crap that we talk about. And that's all I can do, right? Give her my love.
"We do have deep convos when we sit. But we also keep the laughter as well."
Applegate released her memoir You with the Sad Eyes, where she told the 'full story of her years in the public eye' along with the 'painful moments the public didn't see - abuse, abandonment, insecurities, self-doubt, body dysmorphia, assault'.
She said that her MS diagnosis has meant 'all the things I thought were important shifted'.
“For a long time, it felt impossible to find the meaning in everything I’ve been through, but for the first time in my life, I’ve been able to stop and reflect," she wrote.
"I’ve packed a lot into these 50-something years."
Topics: Christina Applegate, Celebrity, Health
Joe Harker