Christina Applegate recorded the latest episode of her “MeSsy” podcast from a Los Angeles hospital bed where she revealed she’s been hospitalized with “so much pain” that she’s “screaming.”
On the Tuesday episode, the “Married… With Children” star told her listeners that she decided to go straight to the hospital while on a flight back from Europe, where she visited family.
“I’m staying here because I want answers. I want every test that you can possibly think of or ones that you haven’t even thought of, and I want them done,” she shared on the show, which she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
The next day, she recalled waking up feeling like “my appendix is bursting” after she felt an excruciating pain on her side.
“So much pain. I’m screaming, and they ordered me an emergency CT at 2 in the morning,” she continued.
The tests concluded that she had a kidney infection that has since spread to her other kidney.
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“I’m just gonna be here,” she said of her hospital stay. “Because of this kidney infection, I have to have intravenous antibiotics right now. And that’s where we’re at.”
Doctors questioned if the actress, 53 — who announced she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August 2021 — had acquired a urinary tract infection and if her wiping technique was the reason behind it.
“Like, what am I back-wiping? Like, seriously, I’m 53,” she said, joking that she has “the cleanest vagina … I’m a clean girl down yonder.”
Still, the “Dead to Me” actress managed to crack a few more jokes despite her ongoing pain.
“I’m holding in a bag o’ tears right now,” she said.
She added, “I sometimes fall into the nurse’s arms like a freako, just like crying.”