Christina Applegate Felt Obligated to Finish ‘Dead to Me’ After Ms Diagnosis: We’re Doing It ‘on My Terms’

Christina Applegate knows “Dead to Me” Season 3 looks very different than the previous seasons.

For one, she wasn’t undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis the last time the Netflix dark comedy aired in 2020.Applegate, who stars opposite Linda Cardellini as a widow who unknowingly befriends her husband’s killer, learned she had Ms in the summer of 2021, pushing back production on the third and final season of “Dead to Me” for five months as she began treatment.“There was the sense of, ‘Well, let’s get her some medicine so she can get better,’” Applegate told The New York Times after the Season 3 trailer premiered.

“And there is no better.

But it was good for me.

I needed to process my loss of my life, my loss of that part of me.

So I needed that time.”The Emmy winner added, “Although it’s not like I came on the other side of it,

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