Christina Applegate shares bucket list, makes candid shower confession

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Christina Applegate has a few life events she wants to cross off her list as she continues to battle multiple sclerosis.

The Married… With Children alum took to X to share a bucket list of what she still wants to accomplish. “There are things I want to do with the days I have left in life. I want to work with Shirley MacLaine. And do shots with Cher! And yes my days are so big. Just saying,” Applegate, 52, wrote.

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Applegate’s wish list garnered over 16,000 likes, with fans cheering the Bad Moms star on in the comments. “I love this! Go after it girl!” one person wrote, with another adding, “I pray you get everything you wish for.”

Her comments came just a week after her daughter, Sadie Grace Applegate LeNoble, shared details about her own health struggles as she battles postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a circulatory disorder that can make sufferers feel faint and dizzy.

Applegate’s 13-year-old daughter made the revelation when she appeared as a guest on a recent episode of her mother’s MeSsy podcast, which she hosts alongside her pal Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, POTS is a condition that causes a number of symptoms when you go from lying down to standing up, such as a fast heart rate, dizziness and fatigue.

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“It affects my heart, and so when I stand up, I get really, really dizzy, and my legs get really weak, and I feel like I’m going to pass out,” Sadie explained (per PEOPLE). “I have fainted before, and I have gone unconscious.”

Sadie said she was diagnosed with the condition several months ago, but has been living with the affliction “for a long time.” During her conversation, she recounted how she would go to the school nurse “multiple times a day” when she was in the sixth grade because she always felt lightheaded, even though her symptoms weren’t taken seriously.

Applegate said she felt “guilty” for not recognizing what was going on with her daughter.

“She wears layers of clothes on 90 degree days and she hates PE … I was like, ‘Oh, I kind of felt that way too.’ I feel so horrible that we didn’t pay attention to it,” she said (per Us Weekly). “I just didn’t see it at home, babe. At home you were fine. But it’s kind of like us,” Applegate said, referencing her and Sigler’s battles with MS. “We get out in the world, and the stresses and the anxiety of the world bring upon our symptoms much worse then they would be if we were in the safety and the coolness of our own homes.”

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Applegate has been open about her own struggles with her health after her MS diagnosis in 2021.

Last month, the Dead to Me star told Sigler, 43, that she was “in a depression.”

“A real, f—-it-all depression — like, a real depression, where it’s kind of scaring me too a little bit because it feels really fatalistic, it feels really ‘end of,’” she said. “I don’t mean that, but I’m trapped in this darkness right now that I haven’t felt in probably 20-something years.”

Applegate went on to say that after being diagnosed with the disease, she doesn’t “enjoy living.” 

“I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore,” she added.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, MS affects the central nervous system and can cause muscle weakness, vision changes, numbness and memory issues.

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But Applegate is also trying to have a lighthearted outlook on her new reality, calling Sigler the “Simon to my Garfunkel” this week as she joked about her struggles to groom her bikini line amid her MS fight.

“(That) is what my bush looks like at this point,” Applegate joked on her Messy podcast, referring to Art Garfunkel’s out of control hairdo (per Us Weekly). “Shave when your stomach is as big as mine. Because you have to lift it up and then get in … you know what I mean? You’re one-handing and you’re trying to stand and you’re falling over in the shower. I know people with MS can relate to this. You can’t get in there, get your leg up and then move your big belly up to see it.”

Sigler, who has had MS for two decades, added, “You have to sit on the floor. You gotta literally sit on the floor of your shower and contort yourself in strange ways.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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