Christina Applegate broke down on her podcast after revealing that her father, Robert “Bobby” Applegate, had handed away at 82 years previous.
Whereas the Lifeless To Me actress didn’t disclose the small print of his dying, she shared that he had handed away every week prior and that her feelings had been nonetheless uncooked from the ordeal.
A tragic loss
© TLC“My dad simply handed away every week in the past,” Christina stated on her MeSsy podcast, which she co-hosts with fellow MS sufferer and Sopranos actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
“That is the primary time I’ve actually cried. I believe form of, like, I wasn’t permitting myself to have that but,” she defined. “Too busy with this, too busy with that.”
“We knew he was going to die. Is that an excuse for not feeling?” she challenged. “Since you form of know that somebody’s going to go, and you have stated your goodbyes.”
Household ties
© Getty PhotographsThe veteran star was the one baby of Bobby and his spouse Nancy Priddy, who break up when Christina was only a child.
Whereas she and her father had been estranged for a few years all through her childhood, the Anchorman star reconnected with him as an grownup, and the duo even appeared on an episode of TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are? collectively in 2013.
“I did not develop up with my dad. He and my mother separated after I was 5 months previous, however he is been in my life ever since,” she stated on the podcast. She added that though Bobby “wasn’t a part of the teachings a part of life,” she has two “stunning siblings and an incredible stepmother” due to him.
Christina’s well being journey
© Matt WinkelmeyerChristina’s tragic loss comes amid her gruelling battle with MS, or Multiple Sclerosis, a neurological dysfunction that sees the immune system assault the protecting masking of nerve fibres within the mind and spinal twine.
The illness has no remedy, and may trigger imaginative and prescient issues, mobility points, fatigue, temper modifications and immense ache all through the physique.
The mother of one introduced that she had been diagnosed in August 2021 whereas filming the hit Netflix sequence Lifeless To Me.
© ABCShe co-hosts the podcast with Jamie-Lynn, who has lived with MS for over 20 years.
They began the venture collectively in March 2024 after leaning on one another amid their well being battles, hoping to assist others via their very own MS journeys.
“She’s the one one that actually is aware of me,” Christina advised People. “I can discuss something along with her…We might speak on the cellphone for hours, laughing and crying. After which we had been like, ‘That is serving to us. Let’s file this.'”
A each day battle
© WireImageChristina opened up about living in daily agony on a November episode of the present, revealing that she lies awake at night time riddled with ache.
“I lay in mattress screaming — like, the sharp pains, the ache, that squeezing,” she stated. “I am unable to even decide up my cellphone typically as a result of now it is traveled into my fingers, so I am going to, like, attempt to go get my cellphone or get my distant to activate the TV or typically, I am unable to even maintain them. I am unable to open bottles now.”
She continued: “I put my toes on the bottom and so they’re hurting, like, terribly dangerous to the contact.” The 53-year-old isn’t any stranger to well being battles after being recognized with breast most cancers in 2008, for which she underwent a double mastectomy. She additionally had her ovaries and fallopian tubes eliminated in 2017 to forestall the most cancers from returning.
To be taught extra about Christina’s ongoing well being battle, see beneath…
