Afterward, Applegate lightheartedly touched connected her diagnosis.

"Oh, by the way, I person a disease," she joked, receiving laughs from those successful attendance. "Did you not notice? I'm not adjacent wearing shoes."

Appearing barefoot and carrying a cane, Applegate posed for photos successful a achromatic suit alongside Dead to Me co-star Linda Cardellini and Married…with Children co-star Katey Sagal.

In an interrogation with Variety published Nov. 9, Applegate shared however she was processing the nationalist event.

"People are going to spot maine for the archetypal clip arsenic a disabled person," she said, "and it's precise difficult."

Applegate archetypal shared the quality of her diagnosis connected Twitter, wherever she described the acquisition arsenic a "strange journey." She told Variety that the diagnosis arrived erstwhile she was filming the 3rd and last play of Netflix's Dead to Me.

"I had to telephone everybody and beryllium like, ‘I person aggregate sclerosis guys. Like, what the f--k!'" she said. "And past it was astir benignant of learning—all of america learning—what I was going to beryllium susceptible of doing."

Upon proceeding of her aesculapian diagnosis, the showrunners projected "calling the plug," but Applegate was determined to transportation on.

"But I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no: We person to decorativeness this story. It's excessively important to our hearts; excessively important to our souls,'" she said. "So, if that meant maine having to instrumentality a interruption successful the mediate of the time truthful I could spell sleep—or maine conscionable leaving due to the fact that I couldn't bash anymore—then that's what we had to do."

Dead to Me play 3 hits Netflix connected Nov. 17.