Christina Applegate’s MS diagnosis has 'broken' her teenaged daughter

Christina Applegate’s MS diagnosis has had a ripple effect on her family.

The “MarriedWith Children” star opened up on how her illness has “broken” her 14-year-old daughter, Sadie.

"In my situation, Sadie only knew me as healthy, and a runner, and a Pelotoner and a dancer, and she only knew that," Applegate explained on her “MeSy podcast, with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler. "So then, when this came about, 2021, she was, like, stoic about it."

She continued, "And now, I see her look at me when I'm in bed and can't quite move, or I want to go say goodnight to her in her room, but I can't quite get down the hallway for whatever reason that my legs aren't working that day. Right now I can barely get to bathroom, it's the worst, but that's neither here nor there. It's broken her."

The 53-year-old added that as time has gone on, the impact has gotten worse.

"She didn't know this. It was like losing the mom she had to this f---ing thing. And the more she's gotten older now, I think the more it's hurting her," Applegate said. "Also, I was diagnosed in 2021, so we had just gone through COVID and no school and all this stuff, and now mommy can't do all the things that she used to be able to do, and I see it in her eyes. I see it."

But Applegate said her daughter is always trying to support her as best she can.

When we're out, she knows I'm having such a hard time because I have such anxiety about being out. And she's always got my arm,” she said. "She's always trying to help me through and help me with my cane and all this stuff. At home, she's like, ‘Can you please go down and make my food ’cause you're the only one who can make it.'

"She's like, 'You're going down all the steps.' And I'm like, 'Sadie, I can't make it down the f---ing steps.' But I do it. I do it because I know that it's like she's checking in to make sure, ‘Can she still take care of me?’"

Since her diagnosis in 2021, Applegate has openly shared her struggles with MS, from the physical to the emotional.

The “Dead to Me” star was also recently hospitalized for a kidney infection.