Christina Applegate clarifies 'I don't enjoy living' comment: 'I'm not sitting here on suicide watch'

Applegate says she's just being honest about what she's going through since being diagnosed with MS.

Christina Applegate is doing just fine, okay? Well, not really. But she's being honest about it, and that's helping her to deal with her multiple sclerosis.

Applegate caused quite a bit of concern when on a June 4 episode of her podcast with friend and fellow MS survivor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, MeSsy, the Dead to Me star admitted that she doesn't enjoy living anymore, nor does she enjoy things like she used to.

"This is being really honest: I don't enjoy living. I don't enjoy it," she said. "I don't enjoy things anymore. You know, if someone can come over and lay in bed with me and talk, like you have… that's enjoyable, I enjoy that. But if someone’s like, 'Let’s get up and go for a walk' or 'Let's go get a coffee,' I don’t enjoy that process."

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In the latest MeSsy episode, Applegate addressed her comments, which were made earlier this year not long after her appearance on the Emmys.

"I was talking about some dark stuff that I was thinking and feeling," the 52-year-old said. "I feel like when we hold things in we give them power. I also think that there's so much shame a lot of people feel when they're going through mental health issues ... and when people holds those in, because they're so afraid to say how they truly feel, we give it immense power."

The actress continued by saying that she thinks it's "incredibly healing and important to be able to express the thoughts, whether that makes someone uncomfortable or not."

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Applegate and Sigler started their podcast so they could be radically honest about their illness and what it's like living with MS, and since announcing her diagnosis in August 2021, the Married... with Children actress has really been put through the mill.

"By making such a big deal about it you're making other people think, 'Oh, s---, I can't talk about this.' And that is not OK with me," Applegate continued. "It's important to be able to say these things. And, no, I'm not sitting here on suicide watch, OK? I am not. Nor have I ever been."

Sigler, who was diagnosed with MS in 2001, commiserated with her co-host, noting that she's had moments where she prayed she didn't wake up, but also applauded Applegate for reinforcing the idea that it's okay to not be okay.

"I dare anyone to be diagnosed with MS or any kind of chronic illness that has taken who you were prior to that moment and go, 'This is great.' You know?" Applegate added. "No, you have moments of feeling, 'This is tiring and I don't want to do this.' But you do it, and by having friends like you and my beautiful friends that I have saying this s--- out loud it releases the pressure in the balloon."

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