Why Christina Applegate's Been Wearing Diapers
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00:00I'm going to be gross.
00:01Sorry, guys.
00:02I woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning in a pool of-
00:05Oh, Christina.
00:06Of shit.
00:07Oh, my gosh.
00:09Didn't know what happened, but this
00:11brings me to my next point, which we can talk about.
00:14Great.
00:15I'm wearing diapers.
00:17Christina Applegate getting extra real with her fans,
00:20opening up about why she's wearing diapers.
00:23I can't even, I can't even begin to tell you.
00:26On the latest episode of her and Jamie Lynn
00:28Sigler's Messy podcast, the actress,
00:31who's been battling multiple sclerosis for three years,
00:34gets completely transparent about the whole diaper
00:37situation, saying it started after she got
00:40COVID from one of her friends.
00:42My caretaker, Cheryl, got it.
00:44I got it, and this other person got it.
00:46Like, all this fear of having MS and being immunocompromised
00:51and getting it, I was like, oh, man, I'm so good.
00:56And then it turned into long COVID,
00:58and it turned into a chest infection.
01:01And when her symptoms kept getting worse,
01:03she says the doctor told her she actually had another virus too.
01:07I have something called sapovirus.
01:10It is when you ingest the fecal matter of someone else
01:15from your food.
01:16Now, things are getting graphic here,
01:18as Christina explains bathroom troubles ensued.
01:21I started having, yeah, like, pissing out
01:25of my ass for a few days.
01:26OK, I'm going to be gross.
01:27Sorry, guys.
01:28I woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning in a pool of-
01:32Oh, Christina.
01:33Of shit.
01:34Oh, my gosh.
01:35Didn't know what happened.
01:37It's not fun, but this brings me to my next point,
01:40which we can talk about.
01:42Great.
01:43I'm wearing diapers.
01:44Yeah, I'm wearing diapers.
01:46Just talking about it.
01:48Christina says it's been almost three weeks of being sick,
01:51and she's tracing it all back to one takeout meal.
01:55It's a restaurant I've been eating at for 15 years.
01:58Like, it's a vegan place, and I got a salad.
02:03And I think that they say that it's mostly from salads,
02:06because cooked food kind of kills the bacterias.
02:09Yeah, we're tracing it back to that.
02:11This isn't the first time Christina's been brutally
02:14honest with the internet.
02:15Last month, she shared a health update
02:17on the Armchair Expert podcast,
02:19opening up about the harsh reality of living with MS.
02:23You know, this is a disease forever for us.
02:25We're prolonging life with these treatments now.
02:28Doesn't mean that I'm gonna be around in 10 years.
02:31As for how she pushes through?
02:33By clinging on to her sense of humor.
02:35I make these jokes because if I don't,
02:37I'll suffocate, I'll be done.
02:38I'm not ready for the healing yet.
02:40And I'm being very honest, I will get there.
02:42But when someone says,
02:44have you accepted this as your new normal?
02:46No, fuck you, absolutely not.
02:48How do I deal with everything in life?
02:50I try to be really present, present and grateful.