Actor Selma Blair has put the most intimate parts of her life and multiple sclerosis diagnosis on display with her new documentary “Introducing Selma Blair,” directed by Rachel Fleit. B…
,” directed by Rachel Fleit. But while Blair doesn’t pull any punches, she also doesn’t pretend that what she has gone through with her diagnosis will mirror everyone else’s experience. So, rather than create a scientific roadmap of treatment options, she simply wanted to tell her story.
The documentary follows Blair as she undergoes HSCT and as the world shifts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Fleit put it, “We had about 15 minutes left of the film” when COVID started ravaging the globe. “I got to about 75 minutes and I was like, ‘How do I land this plane?'” Blair also lost her mother during this time and, aside from her son, her mother was her person, but she couldn’t go to her because of COVID. “My mother would have plotzed if she were alive to see me on film like this,” Blair said of the times she was in the hospital with medical setbacks, without hair and makeup.
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