Selma Blair Told Christina Applegate to Get an MRI. Now Applegate Says Her MS Was a Misdiagnosis.

Selma Blair is opening up about the moment she pushed Christina Applegate to get an MRI after Applegate described severe neuropathy and pain in her feet. On“The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show,”Blair recalled telling her friend the symptoms sounded neurological and that she could have MS. Blair, who was diagnosed with MS in 2018, called that scan“the beginning of her journey.”

In a twist nobody saw coming, Applegate revealed on her“MeSsY”podcast the same day that a doctor now says she doesn’t have MS. She says she’s gotten worse rather than better, still uses a wheelchair to get into appointments, and is back at square one trying to understand what’s been happening since 2021. The diagnosis, she said,“stopped my life”and cost her her job.

The story lands hard because so many people know what it’s like to wait for answers that never quite come. Applegate’s honesty about the uncertainty, and Blair’s instinct to speak up, both deserve the spotlight. Have you ever had a friend spot a health issue before a doctor did? Tell us in the comments.