Selma Blair's Doctors Suggested She Get A Boyfriend While She Was Suffering With Undiagnosed MS -- WTF?!
30.11.2023 - 00:51
/ perezhilton.com
This is absolutely ridiculous.
Poor Selma Blair spent years struggling to find answers for chronic pain and her doctors suggested… she get a f**king boyfriend?!? Are you serious?
The actress dropped this bomb in a new interview with Kristen Welker on Meet The Press on Sunday, saying she was victim to tons of prejudiced medical treatment for her undiagnosed multiple sclerosis. Not only did it take her longer to get help, but a doctor once told her to get a boyfriend to deal with her problems! She revealed:
We’d probably have a similar reaction! What a wild and misogynistic thing for a doctor to say! Sadly, not surprising. Some doctors — even in the most progressive of cities — still don’t know how to keep their OPINIONS separate from MEDICAL suggestion!
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Addressing her initial thoughts further, the 51-year-old added:
Sadly, this made her start to develop self-doubt, but deep down, she knew she wasn’t making up the pain — it’d been something that affected her since she was a kid:
Oof, that’s so unfortunate. Despite doctors being dismissive of her health concerns, she continued to battle various issues, the Cruel Intentions alum added:
Providing the receipts, she continued:
Ugh! Heartbreakingly, she expressed:
No wonder she struggled with her mental health throughout this health journey.
Thankfully, the Legally Blonde star did eventually get the right help and announced her MS diagnosis in 2018. While she suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a disorder connected to MS that affects her speech, and uses a cane and service animal, she is in remission. Amazing — but we wish it didn’t take this long!!!
Hear more from the interview (below):
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