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Christina Applegate’s red carpet walk at the 28thCritics' Choice Awardswill be a special one.
TheDead to Mestar, 51, who isnominated for best actress in a comedy seriesat the awards ceremony, shared that Sunday’s show will be the first she’s attended since she revealed in 2021 that she wasdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis(MS).
“So this Sunday will be the first awards show I have been to since 2019.And the first since MS,” Applegate wrote on Twitter. “NERVOUS! But grateful to the @CriticsChoice for including me.”
She added in another tweet a day prior: “Thank you @SAGawards for this nomination today! I have been a proud member of this union since 1975. I’ve had an incredibly hard year, and today this made me smile. Much love to my peers and to my sweet Jean Smart and the other incredible ladies I walk beside.”
This year marks Applegate’s third Critics' Choice Award nomination and her third time being nominated for her performance as Jen Harding inDead to Me.
The Netflix series follows the dysfunctional friendship that blossoms between Jen, a widowed real estate agent, and Judy (Linda Cardellini), the eccentric woman she meets in a grief support group. After premiering in 2019, the showreturned for its third and final seasonlast year, following a delay due to theCOVID-19pandemic.
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Cardellini, 47, praised her costar as she spoke to PEOPLE on the red carpet of the season 3 premiere in November, noting that it was Applegate’s decision to continue working through her diagnosis, even though she “had every right” not to.
“All of us were okay if she didn’t want to come back [but] she chose to come back, and I think that’s who she is: She wanted to finish it,” said Cardellini. “So I just wanted to be there with her to finish it and for us to both be able to lean on each other in anything that we needed.”
Applegate has not let her diagnosis keep her from getting back out there. In October, she shared a photo of some “fancy” walking stick options for her first event since MS, writing that the objects “are now part of my new normal.”
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TheMarried… with Childrenalum was later honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in November. Although she noted that she couldn’t “stand for too long,” Applegate made light of her diagnosis in her heartfelt speech.
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source: people.com
