Christina Applegate shared that her role on DeadtoMe might be 'the last one' she'll ever play after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
interview ahead of season 3 of the Netflix dark comedy. “This is the first time anyone’s going to see me the way I am,” she told the outlet. “I put on 40 pounds; I can’t walk without a cane. I want people to know that I am very aware of all of that.”alum added that she’s made her peace with the fact that some people might be critical of her appearance on the show.
“If people hate it, if people love it, if all they can concentrate on is, ‘Ooh, look at the cripple,’ that’s not up to me. I’m sure that people are going to be, like, ‘I can’t get past it,” she said. “Fine, don’t get past it, then. But hopefully people can get past it and just enjoy the ride and say goodbye to these two girls.”The Friends alum told Variety that her role on Netflix’s Dead to Me might be “the last one” she’ll ever play. “With my disease, I don’t know how capable I am,” she shared.
“I didn’t know what was happening to me. That January, my toes got numb, and I ignored it. The balls of my foot got numb, and I ignored it. All of a sudden, I’d be, like, falling over,” she explained. “People were like, ‘Oh, it’s just neuropathy.’ At this point, they had to take me with a wheelchair to set because I couldn’t walk if the set was far. I was sleeping all the time, and I gained 40 pounds — a lot of things happened.
While she doesn’t think she’ll watch the final season of Dead to Me — “It’s too hard for me” — the California native shared that finishing the show was the only option for her. “I couldn’t have done it without this need to tell our story. They were gonna pull the plug, you know? Because it was like torture — and they felt like they were torturing me, too. But I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no: We have to finish this story. It’s too important to our hearts; too important to our souls,” she told Variety. “And we have to give this gift, not only to ourselves — there are people that love these characters, and we’ve got to let them have their closure too.
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