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Christina Applegate is opening up about the toll her health battle has on her family.
On Tuesday's (August 26) episode of her MeSsy podcast with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Applegate shared a candid look at how her multiple sclerosis diagnosis impacts her relationship with her 14-year-old daughter, Sadie, admitting that her struggles have "broken" the teen, per Page Six.
"I see her look at me when I'm in bed and can't quite move, or I wanna go say goodnight to her in her room, but I can't quite get down the hallway for whatever reason that my legs aren't working that day," she said, adding, "Right now I can barely get to the bathroom, it's the worst, but that's neither here nor there."
Applegate noted that her MS diagnosis was a big change not just for herself but also for her daughter, who until then only knew her mom as "healthy, and a runner, and a Pelotoner and a dancer... so when this came about, 2021, she was like stoic about it."
"She didn't know this. It was like losing the mom she had to this f---ing thing," she continued. "And the more she's gotten older now, I think the more it's hurting her... I see it in her eyes. I see it."
However, the Dead to Me star explained that the teen still has her mom's back and is "always trying to help me through and help me with my cane and all this stuff."
"But you know what's really beautiful?" she asked. "When we're out, she knows I'm having such a hard time because I have such anxiety about being out. And she's always got my arm."
Applegate's latest comments come weeks after she shared a heartbreaking health update from her hospital bed.