Selma Blair’s MS Went Undiagnosed for Over 40 Years—She Stopped the Same From Happening to Christina Applegate
at 10:30 p.m. on August 16, 2018, but, as she reveals in a new interview with , her condition was misdiagnosed or ignored for more than 40 years since her first health struggles as a child. “If you’re a boy with those symptoms, you get an MRI,” said of being a 7-year-old who had lost use of her right eye and left leg, as well as bladder control. She’d wake up in the middle of the night laughing uncontrollably.