Selma Blair has revealed she’s “in remission” from multiple sclerosis.
The actress was diagnosed with the chronic disease in 2018, and has since underwent a stem cell transplant and a course of chemotherapy to help treat her immune system.
The 49-year-old appeared virtually at a Television Critics Association panel ahead of the release of her documentary ‘Introducing Selma Blair’, where she revealed her prognosis is “great”.
According to PEOPLE magazine, the Legally Blonde star said: “My prognosis is great. I’m in remission. Stem cell put me in remission. It took about a year after stem cell for the inflammation and lesions to really go down.”
“I was reluctant to talk about it because I felt this need to be more healed and more fixed. I’ve accrued a lifetime of some baggage in the brain that still needs a little sorting out or accepting. That took me a minute to get to that acceptance.”
“It doesn’t look like this for everyone. I have really felt unwell and misunderstood for so long that it’s just, me.”
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Selma revealed her 10-year-old son Arthur gave her the strength to get through her tough health battle.
She said: “It’s not that MS was on a path killing me. I mean it was killing me with this flare lasting so long. I was so burnt out.”
“If there was an option to halt me, to rebalance after being hit so hard with that last flare, it’s absolutely for my son. I have no desire to leave him alone right now.”
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Selma added that while an MS diagnosis “can be very isolating” for some people, she had a lot of support from family and friends.
The Cruel Intentions star said: “People took great care of me. I never really like life. I do now — strange, huh?”
“Just because life’s so weird. I was so scared in life. To suddenly start to find an identity and a safety in me, to figure out boundaries, time management and energy. I’m having the time of my life.”
Selma’s health battle will be documented in ‘Introducing Selma Blair’, which hits US cinemas on October 15.
