Overview
- Applegate tells People she mainly gets up to drive her 15-year-old daughter to school, then returns to bed because movement is too painful.
- Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, she says she spends most of her day in her bedroom as pain and mobility limits have worsened.
- Excerpts from the memoir describe sexual abuse at age five by a female babysitter and a chaotic home life shaped by her mother’s heroin addiction and a violent partner.
- She has indicated her acting career is effectively on hold, saying Netflix’s Dead to Me may have been her last on‑camera project.
- Her public MS work continues through the MeSsy podcast with Jamie‑Lynn Sigler and a new sharing platform called Next in MS, and she has discussed coping with humor in recent TV appearances.