Christina Applegate Attends the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards, Her 1st Since Since MS Diagnosis

16.01.2023 - 06:07 / usmagazine.com

Happy to be there! Christina Applegate stepped out at the 28th annual Critics’ Choice Awards — the first awards show she’s attended since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Applegate, 51, was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the awards show. During the Sunday, January 15, broadcast, Cedric the Entertainer presented her category, in which she ultimately lost to Hacks’ Jean Smart. When the 58-year-old Neighborhood alum said her name, Applegate was seen applauding and smiling from her seat.

The Dead to Me star announced her intentions to attend the Los Angeles-based ceremony — hosted by Chelsea Handler — two days earlier. “So this Sunday will be the first awards show I have been to since 2019. And the first since MS. NERVOUS,” Applegate tweeted on Friday, January 13. “But grateful to the @CriticsChoice for including me.” 

The Married … With Children alum first confirmed her diagnosis two years earlier.

“Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with MS,” Applegate wrote via Twitter in August 2021. “It’s been a strange journey. But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a—hole blocks it.”

She continued at the time: “As one of my friends that has MS said ‘We wake up and take the indicated action’. And that’s what I do. So now I ask for privacy. As I go through this thing.”

The Samantha Who? alum has since been candid about her health struggles and determination to finish filming the final seasons of her Netflix series despite her MS diagnosis. (Dead to Me’s third and final season aired in 2022.)

“I had an obligation to [the series creator] Liz [Feldman] and to Linda [Cardellini], to our story.