Christina Applegate before the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards. | Source: Getty Images
The then 53-year-old Emmy winner delivered the update in the August 5 episode of “MeSsy.” But this time, the recording came not from a studio, but from a hospital room where Applegate was fighting a serious kidney infection.
The ordeal began overseas. While visiting family in Europe, the beloved “Married… With Children” star started experiencing alarming waves of stomach pain.
“I was not feeling good the whole time I was there,” Applegate explained. “But not like the kind of bad where I had missed days. It would just be like up and down. Like, I’d be okay for a couple hours, and then I’d be having [sic] to go lie down because my stomach was really bad.”
The mysterious symptoms worsened dramatically on her 11-hour flight home. Rather than brush it off, Applegate took charge, demanding to be admitted and evaluated immediately after landing.
Christina Applegate looks on during her Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony. | Source: Getty Images
“I want to be admitted. I’m not listening to you guys. We’re — 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 recalled saying, in a defiant stand for her health.
By Sunday, she was in unbearable pain. What started on the right side of her abdomen soon radiated around to her back — a searing, full-body pain that left her initially fearing her appendix may be bursting.
Christina Applegate spotted in Los Angeles, California. | Source: Getty Images
“From my back to my front, is like in [sic] so much pain. I’m like screaming. And they ordered me an emergency CT at two o’clock in the morning,” she shared. That scan delivered the shocking truth — she had a kidney infection, which required intravenous antibiotics, that had already spread from one kidney to the other.
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