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Christina Applegate Pokes Fun at Her MS Diagnosis and Receives a Standing Ovation at 2024 Emmys: Watch

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Jan. 15 2024, Published 8:43 p.m. ET

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Christina Applegate kicked off the 2024 Emmys with humor and heart!

The actress, who was diagnosed with MS a few years ago, came out to present the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the Monday, January 15, event.

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Christina Applegate presented Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy at the 2024 Emmys.

The blonde beauty wore a maroon dress and used a cane as she took to the podium while receiving a standing ovation from the crowd of celebrities. The star was instantly overcome with emotion and started tearing up as she addressed the audience with a joke.

"Thank you so much. You're totally shaming me about my disability by standing up," Applegate quipped. "Body not by Ozempic."

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"Some of you may know me as Kelly from Married With Children," she began before she was interrupted by more cheers.

"We don't have to applaud every time I do something," she laughed.

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The star was diagnosed with MS in 2021.

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Applegate also highlighted a few of other well known gigs, such as Samantha Who and Dead to Me.

"Very few of you probably know me from that debut: Baby Burt Grizzell on Days of Our Lives," she continued of her very first job as a baby, then admitting she was "going to cry more than I've been crying."

"It's been an honor to play funny, flawed, complex characters like the women nominated for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

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The Hollywood star has one daughter.

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The mom-of-one also had the honor of introducing Carol Burnett, who read out the nominees for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, which Applegate was up for. However, Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson took home the victory.

As OK! previously shared, Applegate publicly announced her diagnosis in August 2021.

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“It’s been a strange journey. 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------ blocks it," she tweeted.

"As one of my friends that has MS said 'we wake up and take the indicated action.' And that’s what I do," the Hollywood star added. "So now I ask for privacy. As I go through this thing. Thank you xo."

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In June 2023, Applegate admitted to Variety that the final season of Netflix's Dead to Me — which aired in 2022 — may be her last role ever.

“We don’t know what my future as an actress is going to be,” she acknowledged. “How can I handle it? How can I go onto a set and call the shots of what I need as far as my boundaries, physically?”

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The actress admitted MS affects every day of her life.

“With the disease of MS, it’s never a good day,” Applegate said of how her symptoms affect her everyday. “There are just certain things that people take for granted in their lives that I took for granted. Going down the stairs, carrying things — you can’t do that anymore. It f------ sucks. I can still drive my car short distances. I can bring up food to my kid. Up, never down.”

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