Christina Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021. Photo / Getty Images
Christina Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021. Photo / Getty Images
American actress Christina Applegate has been admitted to hospital after falling ill with a kidney infection.
The 53-year-old revealed she fell sick during a trip to Europe with pain and stomach issues and was left “screaming” in agony, so she checked herself into a hospital as soon as she landedback in Los Angeles to undergo tests and “get some answers”.
During an episode of her MeSsy podcast, which she recorded from her hospital bed, Applegate explained: “I’m like, I wanna be admitted. I’m staying here because I want answers. I want every test that you can possibly think of or ones that you haven’t even thought of, and I want them done.”
Applegate revealed she thought her appendix was bursting, but a CT scan revealed she had a kidney infection which had spread to both sides.
She said: “My brain’s like: ‘Oh, my appendix is bursting’ ... From my back to my front is in so much pain. I’m screaming, and they ordered me an emergency CT at 2 in the morning ...
“I’m just gonna be here [in hospital] because of this kidney infection, I have to have intravenous antibiotics right now. And that’s where we’re at.”
She went on to admit she was struggling emotionally, adding: “I’m holding in a bag o’ tears right now ... I sometimes fall into the nurse’s arms like a freako, just like crying.”
So we had to tape an episode and I was in the hospital. So who knows what I said hahaha. pic.twitter.com/piz38rtRdQ
In a statement to People, she said: “I’m home and have been treated for the kidney infection. As far as my ongoing stomach thing, it’s a work in progress. I was there seven days.”
Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis – a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the brain and central nervous system – in 2021 and last year she admitted she was really struggling to come to terms with her illness.
She told the MeSsy podcast: “It’s kind of scaring me too a little bit because it feels really fatalistic, it feels really ‘end of’. I don’t mean that, but I’m trapped in this darkness right now that I haven’t felt in probably 20-something years. I don’t enjoy living. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore.”
Christina Applegate and daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble attend the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2023. Photo / Getty Images
She later added: “I’m good. Does that take a little bit of the pressure off of all of you? I’m good. Let’s address it. We are going to address it. It’s a moment. It’s a thought. It’s a feeling. I was talking about some dark stuff I was thinking and feeling.
“I think it’s important to be able to say these things. 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? No.
“You have moments of feeling like this is tiring and I don’t wanna do this. But you do it, and by having friends like you and my beautiful friends that I have, by saying this out loud, it releases the pressure in the balloon, man.”
