Leaning on her 12-year-old daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble on one side and a cane on the other. Christina Applegate walked the red carpet at Fairmont Century Plaza in California to attend the 29th edition of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, presented on Sunday, February 26th, honoring the year’s best film and television performances. Applegate was nominated for Best Comedy Actress for the Netflix series Dead to Me, but the award ultimately went to a convalescent Jean Smart, who recently had heart surgery, for her role in Hacks. The 51-year-old actress – who announced in the summer of 2021 that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis – walked the red carpet with aplomb dressed in a dark velvet gown inspired by the silhouette of a floor-length suit with a message embroidered on it Stock: “Fuck you, sclerosis.”
“This is probably my last awards show as an actress, so it’s a very important date,” Applegate told the Los Angeles Times in early February. “Right now I can’t imagine getting up at five in the morning and spending 12 to 14 hours on set. I don’t have that power in me right now,” he admitted. However, the actress also spoke about her next steps: producing, developing new projects and doing “a lot of voiceovers to make some money and make sure my daughter is fed and we’ll have a roof to live on”.
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In the midst of filming the final season of the series Dead to Me in 2021, Applegate began experiencing pain in her legs and tremors. Shortly thereafter, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “It was a strange journey. But I have received a lot of support from other people I know who have the same disease. It was a difficult road. But as we all know, there is a long way to go. Unless some idiot blocks it. As one of my friends with multiple sclerosis said, “We woke up and took the right steps”. We’re doing it,” the 2003 Emmy-winner for guest starring on the Friends series — who’s been nominated seven times — wrote on her social media about her diagnosis.
Christina Applegate and her daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble at the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held in California on Sunday February 26, 2023 Emma McIntyre (FilmMagic)
After interrupting filming of the series to catch the news and begin treatment, the actress insisted on returning to finish it. Applegate, who rose to fame as a teenager playing Kelly Bundy, daughter of the sitcom Married With Children, had to explain her new situation to her colleagues and talk to the production team about what she could and couldn’t do: “They were amazing “, says the actress, “I was a disaster at the time, although the worst scenes happened alone in my trailer … But there were moments when I broke down on set and then I said ‘I can’t, I need half an hour’ and everyone was very nice to me”.
On November 14, 2022, the actress reappeared in public for the first time since her diagnosis, and she did so to discover her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A recognition he should have received in 2020 and then postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. She did it surrounded by her family, friends and colleagues. The actress commented with the support of Katey Sagal, an actress with whom she shared filming Married with Children and who stayed by her side throughout the speech. “I can’t stand long, so I’ll thank the people I really need,” Applegate began his speech.
The actress was recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame “for her strength and versatility in theatre, film and television,” for a career in which “she has proven to be one of the most influential female leads in Hollywood,” the producer said Organization Walk of Fame, Ana Martínez before discovering the star. “The most important person in this world is my daughter,” Applegate continued. “You are much more than you think. You are beautiful and kind, intelligent and interesting. I’m grateful every day that I can get up to take you to school…thank you for being by my side through all of this,” she said in a speech that brought tears to her eyes. Ironically, her daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble, born in 2011, was another support on her mother’s last walk down the red carpet.