Christina Applegate shared her first new video since spending nearly four months in hospital.
The 54-year-old actor showed off her freshly coloured blonde hair and joked about a “new weird spot on my cheek”.
“Thank you David Stanwell for brightening up my cloudy day,” Applegate said, referring to her hairstylist.
“Love you and love to you all out there.”
The Dead to Me star had last shared an update on her health in April.
“Health issues are a constant for me, but I’m a strong chick and I’m getting stronger and better every day,” she wrote on Instagram then.
She said she was “taking a moment to focus on my health, but I’ll be back with more to say soon enough”, days after a TMZ report claimed she had been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital in late March “though the exact reason for her stay remains unclear”.
At the time, a representative for the actor told Entertainment Weekly that she “had a long history of complicated medical conditions that she’s been refreshingly open about, as evidenced in her memoir and on her podcast”.
Another TMZ report in August claimed she had been discharged after nearly four months. A source close to the actor told the outlet that she was home and “doing well”.
The actor shared a photo last week of a “welcome home” sign that her daughter had made for her when she returned from hospital.
Applegate announced her multiple sclerosis in August 2021.
She has since spoken candidly about the physical and emotional toll of her condition, including the chronic pain that has affected mobility and contributed to periods of severe depression.
Multiple sclerosis, according to the NHS, is “a condition that affects the brain and spinal cord”.
“The autoimmune disease cannot currently be cured, but treatment can often help manage it.”
Symptoms include extreme tiredness, vision problems, numbness in body, muscle cramps and spasms, loss of balance or dizziness, urination issues, memory problems, and sexual dysfunction.
Applegate often speaks about multiple sclerosis on the MeSsy podcast she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who is living with the condition as well.
On 31 March, Sigler said both she and Applegate would take a “few-week hiatus” from the podcast as they were “both busy with our books” and would “be back in a few weeks”.
In her memoir, released in March, Applegate discusses her diagnosis as well as her abusive childhood. Speaking to People ahead of the book’s publication, Applegate said that revisiting her most traumatic episodes had been difficult, but ultimately cathartic.
“To be honest, it’s actually opened up so many wounds, and it’s okay because I’m a strong girl, I’m going to get through it,” she said.
