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 evening’s Emmys to current the primary award, and was greeted with a standing ovation.
Who’s she?
- Applegate is greatest generally known as Kelly Bundy from the long-running sitcom Married…with Kids — and got here to the stage on Monday evening to the present’s theme tune — although she’s had a fairly large and diversified profession since.
- She memorably performed Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, gained an Emmy for her visitor stint on an episode of Pals, and most just lately starred within the Netflix sequence 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 couple of months in the past I used to be identified with MS. It’s been a wierd journey. However I’ve been so supported by folks that I do know who even have this situation. It’s been a troublesome highway. However as everyone knows, the highway retains going. Until some asshole blocks it.
— christina applegate (@1capplegate) August 10, 2021
What is the large deal?
- A number of sclerosis, also referred to as MS, is an autoimmune illness the place the immune system assaults the central nervous system, which incorporates the mind and spinal twine, disrupting communication between the mind and the physique. Its signs embody weak point, fatigue, continual ache and problem strolling. There’s at the moment no remedy, however there are remedies that may gradual its development. Signs can differ broadly.
- Applegate hasn’t made many appearances since she went public along with her analysis. However on the Emmys, she confirmed her humorousness hasn’t gone anyplace. 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 Sequence 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 break day from filming the ultimate season of Useless to Me after getting her analysis. “I wanted to course of my lack of my life, my lack of that a part of me,” she informed The New York Instances in 2022. “Though it is not like I got here on the opposite aspect of it, like, ‘Woohoo, I am completely effective.'”
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