Actress Selma Blair shares peek into her life with multiple sclerosis

Selma Blair was diagnosed with MS in 2018. Photo: TNS

Selma Blair is giving the world a peek into her life with multiple sclerosis.

The Cruel Intentions actress, 49, took to Instagram recently to share a candid video of her life since being diagnosed with the disease, as a way to mark Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month.

“March is #MSAwareness month,” Blair captioned the post. “May we all find the strength to persevere.”

Among the clips in the video — for which she attached Zendaya and Labrinth’s I’m Tired track from Euphoria — are those of Blair in the hospital, receiving treatments, exhausted in bed, dancing, posing with her cane and spending time with her 10-year-old son, Arthur.

Blair was diagnosed with MS in 2018. She later told Good Morning America that she had been “giving it everything to seem normal”.

The actress, who had been experiencing a flare-up with the central nervous system disorder since her son’s 2011 birth, told ABC’s Robin Roberts in 2019 that she was “not taken seriously by doctors.”

She noted at the time that following the diagnosis, she “cried with some relief".

“Like, ‘Oh, good, I’ll be able to do something,’” Blair recalled.

In 2021, Blair announced ahead of her Discovery+ documentary, Introducing Selma Blair, that her multiple sclerosis was “in remission”.

Blair isn’t the only famous face who’s been candid about her battle with multiple sclerosis.

Christina Applegate last summer revealed that she, too, had been diagnosed with the disorder.

“It’s been a strange journey,” the Dead To Me star, 50, tweeted at the time. “But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a—hole blocks it.”

MS results in the disruptions of “signals to and from the brain”, leading to “unpredictable symptoms” like numbness, tingling, memory issues, fatigue, paralysis, and/or blindness, and more, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service