Selma Blair Gives Shout-Out to Those Who Love Her--Including Grandma

Selma Blair is giving an update connected her experience with aggregate sclerosis.

After being diagnosed with MS successful 2018 and undergoing a stem compartment transplant successful 2019, the histrion announced successful 2021 that she's successful remission. While she noted in SELF's January screen communicative that she's "stopped losing abilities," she said that she inactive experiences occasional MS symptoms. According to the magazine, these see mild dystonia—involuntary musculus contractions that tin cause slurred code oregon spasms successful her leg—as good arsenic her near limb going numb if she's been sitting for a while. 

"I'm truthful overmuch better, but it haunts my carnal cells. It's there," Blair, 50, told the publication. "Some radical aftermath up 2 years aboriginal and they're like, 'I'm healed! Colors are brighter!' But I ne'er had that moment. I conscionable stopped having regression."

Reflecting connected her diagnosis, the Cruel Intentions star said it "really did rewire me." 

"It rewired maine to find acceptance successful being honorable astir my faults, about my past addiction, and astir my problems," continued Blair, who has spoken astir her sobriety and has not had an alcoholic portion since 2016. "It made maine much empathetic towards myself."

"I ever accidental however visibility matters for the disabled," she told SELF. "Well, visibility matters for everyone. You person to amusement that you're inactive alive."

And the Legally Blonde alum continues to radiance a spotlight connected disablement advocacy, with the outlet noting she works with the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America and the American Association of People with Disabilities.

"To cognize that determination are truthful galore unthinkable stories and radical and things that request to drawback up and request to correspond and I bash say, of course, we person to bash more," Blair told the BBC successful December. "So I'm truly blessed to beryllium conscionable a disposable ally. Some radical mightiness spot maine arsenic idiosyncratic with a disability, immoderate radical mightiness not and that's not for maine to judge. That's for whoever wants immoderate encouragement I mightiness offer."