Christina Applegate defies multiple sclerosis at Walk of Fame honor

Actress Christina Applegate was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. Applegate attended the ceremony herself, making her first public appearance since announcing her MS diagnosis last year.

“This day means more to me than you can imagine,” Applegate said in her acceptance speech. “It’s an incredible honor.” She responded to her illness with humor. “Oh, by the way, I have an illness,” she said casually during the speech, which required support. “Didn’t you notice that? I don’t even have shoes on.”

Multiple sclerosis is a rapidly progressive disease of the central nervous system. A healing method has not yet been discovered, but the disease can at least be contained.

Apparently a childhood dream came true for Applegate with the award. “I’ve had a very interesting life, but that life started as a little girl standing in line to see ‘Star Wars’ down this street in this very theater,” Applegate said. “And I was looking at these things and I was like, ‘Who are these people? What have you done? […] Anyway, I want one’.”

Applegate is best known for her role as Kelly Bundy on the soap opera Awfully Nice Family. Most recently, she appeared in the Netflix series Dead to Me. Applegate’s illness also affected the shooting, sometimes she could not climb stairs.

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