{"id":1950926,"date":"2025-08-09T06:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1950926"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:57:29","slug":"inside-christina-applegates-resilience-and-humor-amid-unbearable-pain-of-latest-health-scare-exclusive-star-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/inside-christina-applegates-resilience-and-humor-amid-unbearable-pain-of-latest-health-scare-exclusive-star-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Christina Applegate\u2019s \u2018Resilience\u2019 and \u2018Humor\u2019 Amid \u2018Unbearable Pain\u2019 of Latest Health Scare (Exclusive) \u2013 Star Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1717px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newscom\/Mega Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Christina Applegate<\/strong> revealed she\u2019d been hospitalized after suffering a severe double kidney infection that left her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/christina-applegate-hospitalized-actress-recalls-screaming-in-pain-and-demanding-every-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cscreaming\u201d in pain<\/a> earlier this week \u2014 but according to a source, her latest health issue has caused her to dig in even more as she fights to live her best life possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has hit her like a ton of bricks and caused her unbearable pain, but she\u2019s a trooper and showing resilience and incredible mettle,\u201d the source exclusively tells <em>Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the August 5 episode of her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3XKzYODB5n1ocH7npVzVDo?si=040b1ed34cba4298&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=99654b60a8cc4dc5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>MeSsy<\/em><\/a> podcast, the <em>Married\u2026With Children<\/em> alum, 53 \u2013 who also has multiple sclerosis \u2013 shared that she was still under medical care as she was being given intravenous antibiotics to fight the infection.<\/p>\n<p>While she\u2019s on the road to recovery, the source says it\u2019s been \u201chard for her friends and loved ones\u201d who are concerned about how many more health \u201csetbacks\u201d she can handle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1290px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14659\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Featured-1-Christina-Applegate.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Featured-1-Christina-Applegate.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Featured-1-Christina-Applegate-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Featured-1-Christina-Applegate-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Featured-1-Christina-Applegate-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicky Nelson\/WENN.com Newscom\/Mega<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen an infection spreads to the organs, it\u2019s pretty serious,\u201d adds the source. \u201cThis, of course, is more worrisome for someone with MS. It\u2019s horrendous for her to go through, she\u2019s been through so much already, and people around her are in awe how brave and courageous she is, and how she\u2019s managed to still keep her sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, they\u2019re acutely aware she\u2019s living with a very difficult condition and these setbacks are a nightmare to deal with,\u201d the source explains.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>Star<\/em> previously reported, Applegate was diagnosed with MS in 2021 after she struggled with worrying symptoms while filming <em>Dead to Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t walk. They had to use a wheelchair to get me to set,\u201d she shared during a 2022 interview on <em>The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em>. \u201cI was freaking out until someone was like \u2018You need an MRI.\u2019 And then, I found out on a Monday after work that I had MS.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newscom\/Mega Agency Christina Applegate revealed she\u2019d been hospitalized after suffering a severe double kidney infection that left her \u201cscreaming\u201d in pain earlier this week \u2014 but according to a source, her latest health issue has caused her to dig in even more as she fights to live her best life possible. \u201cThis has hit her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inside-Christina-Applegates-\u2018Resilience-and-\u2018Humor-Amid-\u2018Unbearable-Pain-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}