Why Selma Blair Thinks Her MS Diagnosis Set Her Free: 'I'm So Happy'
Selma Blair opens up exclusively to Us Weekly about motherhood, life with MS, the medical treatment she credits with saving her life and finding love again
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00:00Since my diagnosis to now, living my best life is what I've had to do because what's
00:27the alternative?
00:28I think with the diagnosis of MS, I was set free in a lot of ways because I believed I
00:34had a very different personality and kind of pain level that I believed was in my mind.
00:44So I made a lot more sense to me when I was diagnosed with MS and then I made a lot more
00:49sense to my ability to talk a lot when I became kind of an advocate or kind of a middle man
00:57for people with disabilities and people who don't understand or just need a little attagirl.
01:03I've been living my best life just trying to see beautiful things with beautiful people,
01:11doing beautiful, going to beautiful places.
01:13I mean, when the world is kind of dark, you have to, you have to go and find the beautiful
01:20things given everything I've gone through, especially the sadness turning around.
01:27I believe in miracles because I believe that was a human character trait that I was eternally
01:33grieving and that would never change.
01:35I was sure of it.
01:36No matter how much I didn't drink, I'd always be miserable because I'm sad.
01:42You know, that was the story I always told myself that felt real, but I'm not sad.
01:50I mean, I'm sad by things and I'll always admit it, but I love this life.
01:55I mean, what's the alternative?
01:57I have to live it.
02:01I think my challenges that I used humor a lot more for in the beginning, it seemed very
02:07big.
02:08I was a little more demonstratively, my voice was harder to communicate or walking sometimes.
02:18I need my balance and I have like vertigo out of nowhere, so I'd like scream out of
02:24nowhere and I just, I had to have really kind of quick responses for that.
02:30So I'd always look to Christina for some good one-liner, talk about someone who like doesn't
02:35give a lot of Fs.
02:36You know, she's pretty good, tough about that.
02:40You have to have humor through everything or else it would just be true.
02:42I don't know why.
02:43I mean, every day there's something that still gets me, but it's hard for me.
02:49You know, the thing that gives me all my serenity really is horseback riding or playing
02:54with my kid and those are exhausting things for me now.
02:57You know, it's hard for me to be in the sunshine without an ice vest on.
03:00I get like inflammation that causes trouble.
03:05So just the act of relaxing and getting exercise are really tough for me.
03:11So I stay in all day, usually indoors until the sun goes down and I'm on a power plate
03:16inside for circulation and I'm reading other people's study books because, you know, sometimes
03:22you just got to get through it.
03:24Oh gosh, being a mother has been everything to me or else I don't know if I would have
03:29just had the energy to bother.
03:32It's too hard.
03:33I'm upside down.
03:34How do you, how do you keep going?
03:36But if you're a mother, there's just absolutely no way I would give up on him, his future,
03:45to show him like with help, with people caring about us, we can do our best work.
03:52And he cares.
03:53He also cares that I would buy him like a Saran.
03:57So Saran, if you're out there, send my, you know, just kidding, I got him a Saran for
04:01his birthday.
04:02So now I'm a scared mother on a motocross kid.