“This will probably be my last awards ceremony as an actress,” Christina Applegate announced in February 2023 about her attendance at the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG). Yes, he would be seen a few months later at the film magazine party. Variety to receive the honorary award for his more than 40 years of career. But she kept what she said and had not attended an industry awards ceremony since the SAGs, to which she was accompanied by her daughter. Until last night. Applegate, 52, who announced in the summer of 2021 that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, has become one of the stars of the 2024 Emmys.
At last year’s SAGs she was nominated for best comedy actress for the Netflix series dead to me, and almost a year later she was up for an Emmy for best comedy actress for that same role on Monday night. On neither occasion has she taken it home, but last night, during the 75th Television Awards, Applegate appeared on stage at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles (California) to present her first award. And what she got was a standing ovation from the entire audience.
“Our first presenter made her television debut at one year old. Think about that. While I grew up watching television, she grew up doing television,” she was introduced by Anthony Anderson, the comedian and screenwriter in charge of hosting the awards. “She is an Emmy winner and nominated again tonight, it is my honor to introduce you to Christina Applegate.” Then, she appeared on stage walking with the help of a cane that she no longer part with, and Anderson went to meet her to help her on her way to the microphones. The entire auditorium stood up to receive her with an emotional ovation.
“Thank you very much,” Applegate began, excited and with tears in her eyes. “Oh my god, you’re embarrassing me with the disability by standing there, but okay,” she said, drawing on her characteristic sense of humor, and making those present laugh. “You don’t have to applaud every time she can do something,” she continued jokingly. The actress continued her speech most excitedly with “I’m going to cry more than I’ve ever cried.” “It is an honor to play complex, fun roles, like the women nominated tonight,” finally presented the nominees for best supporting actress in a comedy series, an award that Ayo Edibiri won for her role as Sydney Adamu in the series. The Bear.
She did not win the award, but her reappearance has garnered numerous headlines in media around the world. “Such a powerful moment… thank you very much for all the love,” the actress wrote after the gala on her Instagram account, a message that was accompanied by a video of her moment. For the occasion, she chose a maroon two-piece suit by designer Christian Siriano. “This incredible woman tonight in Syriano silk velvet for the Emmys. Let me tell you that multiple sclerosis is a nasty disease and this beauty is very strong and inspiring. She is nominated tonight and she deserves it. I love you! ”Wrote the designer on his Instagram along with a photograph of the performer.
Christina Applegate was diagnosed in August 2021, while she was filming the third and final season of the series. dead to me. After taking a break from filming to assimilate the news and begin treatment, the actress insisted on returning to filming to finish the series. Applegate, who became known as a teenager playing Kelly Bundy, the daughter in the comedy Marriage with children, he had to explain his new situation to his coworkers and talk to the production team about what he could and couldn’t do. “People don’t understand that the heat makes us worse,” he exemplified about his state of health in an interview with Vanity Fair in May
After that diagnosis and since the end of that filming, she lives away from the spotlight and interpretation. Of course, every time she has given an interview or attended an event she has spoken openly about her illness and how it has changed her life and her career. “I probably won’t work in front of the camera again,” she also assured. Vanity Fair. “There are certain things that people take for granted in their lives that I took for granted. Going down stairs, carrying things… you can’t do that anymore. She is a fucking piece of shit,” acknowledged in the interview an interpreter who in 2022 would unveil her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a recognition given to her “for her strength and versatility in theater, film and television.” television “.
“Right now I can’t imagine getting up at five in the morning and spending 12 to 14 hours in a set. “I don’t have that strength in me right now,” she said in another interview with Los Angeles Times in early February 2023. However, the actress, who has suffered from breast cancer in the past, also spoke about her next steps: producing, developing new projects and “doing a lot of voices in off to earn some money and make sure my daughter is fed and we have a roof over our heads.”