Christina Applegate said this week that she’s “nervous” about attending her first awards show since 2019 and since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021.
“So this Sunday will likely be the primary awards show I even have been to since 2019. And the primary since MS. NERVOUS! But grateful to the @CriticsChoice for including me,” Applegate tweeted on Thursday.
She is nominated for her role as Jen Harding in “Dead to Me.”
The actress can also be nominated for best actress on the Screen Actors Guild Awards in February.
“Thanks @SAGawards for this nomination today!” she wrote Wednesday. “I even have been a proud member of this union since 1975. I’ve had an incredibly hard 12 months, and today this made me smile. Much like to my peers and to my sweet Jean Smart and the opposite incredible ladies I walk beside.”
That is her third nomination for “Dead to Me” on the Critics Selection Awards.
Last November, Applegate received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Before the ceremony, she had teased that she was trying to make a choice from several “fancy” walking sticks to make use of on the ceremony, which she said was her first major event since her diagnosis.
“Walking sticks are actually a part of my latest normal,” Applegate wrote on the time. She accepted her star in bare feet, tweeting, “For some with MS the sensation of shoes may hurt or make us feel off balance. So today I used to be me. Barefoot.”
Applegate was diagnosed within the midst of shooting the ultimate season of “Dead to Me,” but after a five-month break wherein she got treatment, she returned and finished the show.
She said the solid and crew were extremely supportive.
“If I called them within the morning and was like, ‘Guys, I can’t get down the steps,’ they were like, ‘OK! We won’t do today. We’ll do other stuff,’” Applegate told Kelly Clarkson last 12 months. “Netflix even allow us to take a break for a few months in order that I could mourn and find treatment.”
The “Bad Mothers” actress also battled breast cancer in 2008 and had a double mastectomy, and had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed.
