The 'Dead to Me' star opened up about feeling like she returned to work on the ABC sitcom too soon after her surgery and how her response to her MS diagnosis was different: 'I didn't speak up for my boundaries back then.'
While discussing the larger changes in her life and her appreciation that she no longer has to push herself through on-set working days with her condition, thestar reflected on how she responded to her breast cancer diagnosis differently while working on the sitcom, which debuted on ABC in 2007. Part of that response saw her waiting five weeks to tell anyone on set she had been diagnosed.
“I didn’t speak up for my boundaries back then,” she said. “I should have asked for some more time after one of my surgeries. I went back to work two weeks after my reconstruction. And that was really difficult for me to do.” Applegate said part of her decision to return when she did was related to those she was working for who “were not very sympathetic or empathetic human beings.” Applegate clarified this was not the showrunners, but “the people at the network.”
“I didn’t feel like I could have that voice to be like, ‘You know what, it’s only been two weeks, and I’m in a lot of pain and maybe we should just let me have a second,'” she added.Applegate went on to say that this time around, withand her MS diagnosis, she had friends who were fellow actresses — Blair and Sigler — with MS who expressed regrets about not advocating for themselves earlier.
“They’ve said, ‘I wish someone had told me back at the beginning to say, ‘I need this. I need these boundaries.’ One of my friends has had it for 20 years. She’s an actress, and she hid it for 10 years and then pushed through and suffered because of it. She was like, ‘You need to tell them [what you need] now that you’ve let it out of the bag,” Applegate said, clarifying that the friend she was referring to was Sigler.
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