Christina Applegate on most ‘trying role which could be her ‘last’

Christina Applegate on most ‘trying role which could be her ‘last’

Christina Applegate reveals the most ‘trying’ acting role, which could be her last.

The character Jen Harding from ‘Dead to Me’, could be Applegate’s most trying acting role to date.

The actress, 50, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis while filming the third and final season of the comedy.

It was as “hard as you would possibly think it would be,” she told Variety in an interview published last Wednesday.

“I got diagnosed while we were working,” Applegate said.

“I had to call everybody and be like, ‘I have multiple sclerosis, guys.’ … And then it was about kind of learning – all of us learning – what I was going to be capable of doing.”

In a New York Times profile published Nov. 1, the actress shared that she “put on 40 pounds” and couldn’t “walk without a cane”.

MS, the body’s immune system begins attacking the central nervous system, triggering various neurological symptoms.

When asked if the show would be her last major role, she said, “I’m pretty convinced that this was it.”

“I’m just a newbie to all of this. I’m trying to figure it out – and I’m also in mourning for the person that I was.”

“I have to find a place that’s as loving as my set was, where they won’t think I’m a diva by saying, ‘Hey, I can only work five hours,’ ” she added.

“Dead to Me” Season 3 is the first time people have seen Applegate onscreen since her MS diagnosis.

(Image:Christina Applegate speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, for “The Book of Life”, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California on July 25, 2014/Creative Commons)