Christina Applegate on the seventy fifth Emmy Awards.
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Christina Applegate on the seventy fifth Emmy Awards.
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Actor Christina Applegate has stayed largely out of the general public eye since she introduced she was identified with a number of sclerosis in 2021. However she got here out at Monday night time’s Emmys to current the primary award, and was greeted with a standing ovation.
Who’s she?
- Applegate is finest generally known as Kelly Bundy from the long-running sitcom Married…with Youngsters — and got here to the stage on Monday night time to the present’s theme track — although she’s had a reasonably huge and diverse profession since.
- She memorably performed Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, received an Emmy for her visitor stint on an episode of Pals, and most lately starred within the Netflix collection Useless to Me as an actual property agent whose husband has been killed by a hit-and-run driver (for which she was nominated for an Emmy on Monday).
Hello pals. A number of months in the past I used to be identified with MS. It’s been an odd journey. However I’ve been so supported by those that I do know who even have this situation. It’s been a tricky street. However as everyone knows, the street retains going. Until some asshole blocks it.
— christina applegate (@1capplegate) August 10, 2021
What is the large deal?
- A number of sclerosis, also called MS, is an autoimmune illness the place the immune system assaults the central nervous system, which incorporates the mind and spinal wire, disrupting communication between the mind and the physique. Its signs embrace weak point, fatigue, power ache and issue strolling. There’s at present no treatment, however there are therapies that may gradual its development. Signs can range extensively.
- Applegate hasn’t made many appearances since she went public together with her prognosis. However on the Emmys, she confirmed her humorousness hasn’t gone wherever. As she got here up on stage to current the award for Finest Supporting Actress in a Comedy, she grew to become visibly emotional earlier than jokingly telling the cheering crowd: “You are completely shaming me, with incapacity, by standing up.”
Christina Applegate presents the award for Finest Supporting Actress in a Comedy Collection on the seventy fifth Emmy Awards.
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What are folks saying?
- The viewers response to Applegate was one of many highlights of Monday’s present, with folks’s appreciation for her persevering with into Tuesday. The Atlantic referred to as her look: “Probably the most truthful second of the Emmys.”
- Applegate has beforehand talked about taking day without work from filming the ultimate season of Useless to Me after getting her prognosis. “I wanted to course of my lack of my life, my lack of that a part of me,” she instructed The New York Occasions in 2022. “Though it is not like I got here on the opposite facet of it, like, ‘Woohoo, I am completely nice.'”
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