David Faustino is sharing his support for former Married … With Children costar Christina Applegate after she revealed she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
“You know, I see her on a regular basis,” Faustino, 52, told Us exclusively while attending Cure Addiction Now‘s 3rd annual fundraising evening at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Monday, November 9. “We hang out, and I just am there supporting her through this journey and discovery of what’s really going on, and just loving her and knowing that the best will happen for her.”
Faustino and Applegate, 54, played siblings on the beloved Fox sitcom, which aired from 1987 to 1997. The actor has often praised Applegate for how she’s navigated her health battle in the public eye.
Applegate initially announced in 2021 that she was diagnosed with MS. She was vocal about her symptoms and experience in the years that followed, but she revealed in October that she was misdiagnosed.
Christina Applegate will continue to advocate for the multiple sclerosis community despite recently learning that she was misdiagnosed with the autoimmune disorder. “You guys are my people,” Applegate, 54, said during the Tuesday, October 27, episode of her and Jamie Lynn Sigler’s “MeSsy” podcast. “That’s the one thing I wanted to say quickly is that […]
“[My doctor] came into my room and said, ‘Congratulations, you don’t have MS,’” she said on her “MeSsY” podcast. “I was, like, not happy at all. Everybody else was so happy.”
Applegate admitted that she was struggling with the news. “You don’t get misdiagnosed and then all of the sudden I’m better. … If anything, I’ve gotten worse,” she continued. “So I’m back at square one where I don’t know what’s going on with me. And that’s going to be an online investigation that my doctors are going to be getting into just to find out what has been going on since 2021, why did this happen?”
In a separate episode, Applegate vowed to stay involved in the MS community despite her changing diagnosis. She further revealed that she’s taken steps to explore other possible avenues, including lupus, Lyme disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
“I’m being tested for those things slowly but surely,” she said. “I lived as a person with MS for almost six years.”
Earlier this year, Faustino opened up to Us about watching his friend work through her health challenges.
“I admire her being strong in the face of this, even though it’s been a real blow. It’s been very hard for her, but she does keep her humor,” he told Us in June, adding that Applegate has maintained her “dry, sarcastic sense of humor since the moment I met her.”
Christina Applegate still has a sense of humor after a doctor confirmed she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “Talk about being a fraud. I don’t even have it anymore. Geez,” Applegate, 54, joked on the Tuesday, November 3, episode of the “MeSsy” podcast before sharing her serious intentions. “I’ll never leave this community. We made […]
Faustino is now going down memory lane with his own podcast, “The Bundy Club,” where he gets to revisit the series that introduced him to Applegate.
“We just started it a few months ago, but we take episodes and we break those episodes down, and we have a guest. So I’m having to rewatch the show, and quite honestly, it’s funny,” he told Us on Monday. “It makes me laugh, and I can see why people still like it. And nowadays, it’s comfort television, you know?”
And while his kids got in on the fun for Halloween in Married … With Children costumes, Faustino joked they couldn’t “care less” about watching their dad’s show.
“It was my wife Lindsay’s idea,” he said of the group costume. “She tried to get me to do it last year. I was like, ‘Nah.’ This year, I gave in. We had zero idea that it was gonna go viral like that. … People just loved it.”
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