Actress Christina Applegate (Dead to Me, The Sweetest Thing) recently shared that she rarely leaves the comfort of her bed, due to her living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). According to CNN, Applegate revealed this news in a People Magazine interview that was released last week.

CNN reports that in early 2021, the actress revealed that she was diagnosed with the disease. Then in a 2023 Vanity Fair interview, the film and TV actress shared she’d probably never act on screen again. This is because the disease impacts one’s central nervous system, when healthy cells are attacked by the very system meant to protect you from illness. With no cure, MS affects patients differently and can impact quality of life.

Applegate shared she sadly stays in bed except when she tries to take her daughter to school. The actress said, “I want to take her; it’s my favorite thing to do. It’s the only time we have together by ourselves,” she told People. “I tell myself, ‘just get her there safely and get home so you can get back into bed.’ And that’s what I do.”

According to CNN, the actress has written a memoir called You With The Sad Eyes which is set to release on March 3. The book is to tell her story and the pain she has suffered, including what makes it so hard for her to move around. Her book reviews her growing up in Laurel Canyon, to her eventual breakout role in Married… With Children. 

A longline for the book states: “A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she’d rather forget: memories of the self-doubt and body dysmorphia that stalked her meteoric rise, of her mother’s fight against addiction and abuse after her father left, and of the tax life had taken on her body and mind that was suddenly coming due.”

In addition to the memoir, Applegate produces a podcast called MeSsy, CNN reports. She records the podcast with co-host by Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos, Entourage), an actress living with the same condition.

She told People, “We all have come from somewhere, some places more painful than others, and it’s what you do with it, I guess. This is not an inspirational book, by any means. But it can inspire.”