Christina Applegate’s 13-year-old daughter receives her own medical diagnosis after mother battles multiple sclerosis

Christina Applegate’s daughter shares how she deals with her mother’s illness.

The former “Married to Children” star’s daughter, Sadie, 13, was a guest this week on her mom’s podcast, “MeSsy,” which she hosts with fellow actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler. During the podcast, Sadie revealed she has been diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Applegate has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

“When my mom says, ‘I’m hurting now. I’m shaking.” If I didn’t have POTS, I’d probably think… I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I actually have POTS-related chills,” Sadie said. “It’s definitely a lot easier to understand what she’s going through when I’m going through it too.”

According to the Cleveland Clinic, POTS occurs when a person experiences anything from dizziness, fatigue, rapid heartbeat, headaches, chest pain and a variety of other symptoms “immediately or a few minutes after sitting or standing up.” This is the result of the body not responding properly to hormones that are supposed to help blood flow back to the heart.

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Sadie also explained that she suffers from misophonia, which is extreme hypersensitivity to sounds. Misophonia can cause extreme discomfort, to the point of causing an emotional or physical reaction in the person. “My two worst ones are breathing and chewing,” Sadie explained.

When Applegate was first diagnosed, Sadie said her mother came up with unique ways to “understand the pain of walking,” explaining, “she made us put on sandy socks.”

The teenager’s experiences with her own health problems have made her more sympathetic to her health struggles, and Sadie takes every opportunity to try to help her mom – even if her help isn’t always needed.

“Every time we go to a concert, she always says, ‘You can’t push my wheelchair, Sadie, you’ll run into the wall,’” she said. “And I will beg. I just say: “Mom, please let me push your wheelchair.” Because I want to help her, so that’s definitely why I want to do it, but it’s also funny because she’s always like, “No, I want that person to do it”… and it’s never me.

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Applegate admitted that her daughter is “darn good at pushing the wheelchair,” but the former “Dead to Me” star’s hesitance to let her help stems from fear that Sadie might let go of the wheelchair on the ramp, “because (she) thought “that’s funny.”

While Sadie understands to some extent what her mother is going through, Applegate admits she feels “extremely guilty” for not being able to do what she would like to do for her daughter.

“Because I don’t want you to ever feel like I’m not fit to be your caregiver, your mother, you know, I love you,” she told her daughter. “I want to prepare food for you. I want to bring them to you. I want to do everything and I do when I can. And I feel incredibly guilty when I can’t.”

The actress was diagnosed with MS in June 2021 while filming the final season of Dead to Me. She has been very open about what life has been like for her with the diagnosis, recently sharing on the podcast, “I don’t like life. I don’t like this. I don’t like anything anymore.”

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The comment sparked concern among her fans, prompting her to respond in a subsequent episode of the podcast by saying, “I’m fine.”

“I defy anyone to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis or any other chronic disease that brought you to this moment and say, ‘That’s great,’” she said. “You know? No, you have moments when you feel: “This is exhausting and I don’t want to do it.” But you do it, and having friends like you and my beautiful friends to whom I say that s— out loud, it takes the pressure off the balloon.

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