Christina Applegate, one of the stars of the hit sitcom ‘Married… With Children’ as well as the ‘Anchorman’ films, has offered new insights into what it’s like to deal with multiple sclerosis.

“I was in bed screaming,” Applegate, 52, said during her MeSy podcast, with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, according to Entertainment Weekly. “Jamie and I have different – ​​everyone has different ways of showing it. I lay in bed screaming. Like the sharp pain, the pain, that pinching.

Applegate described her symptoms during a conversation with Sigler and Rory Kandel, a bakery owner in California. Both Sigler and Kandel also have MS.

“Sometimes I can’t even answer my phone because it’s in my hands now, so I’ll try to grab my phone or grab my remote to turn on the TV, or sometimes I can’t even hold them. open more bottles,” Applegate said, the New York Post reported.

Applegate was diagnosed with MS in 2021 while filming the final season of the Netflix series “Dead to Me.” She believes she may have had the disease for years before she was diagnosed.

The Mayo Clinic website says that MS causes a breakdown of the protective covering of nerves. It can cause numbness, weakness, difficulty walking, vision changes, and other symptoms. There is no cure for it, but there are treatments that can help control symptoms and speed recovery from attacks.

Applegate says she sometimes spends the entire time in bed, depending on her pain level. She said that sometimes the floor feels like “lava” when she tries to get out of bed.

“But it’s like it’s so incredibly painful and so hard and so uncomfortable,” she said.

Applegate rose to fame playing Kelly Bundy on ‘Married… with Children’ from 1987 to 1997. She has appeared in multiple TV shows and films, including one of her biggest roles as Veronica Corningstone opposite Will Ferrell in the 2004 film ‘Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy’. She also starred in the sequel, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.”