If there was one stand-out second from Monday night time’s 2023 Emmy Awards, for a lot of it was the emphatic and unrelenting standing ovation given to actor Christina Applegate.
As a part of her shock look, Applegate, 52, offered the award for finest supporting actress in a comedy collection to The Bear star Ayo Edebiri.
Prior to doling out the distinguished award, Applegate, who in 2021 was identified with a number of sclerosis (MS), took to the stage utilizing a cane sporting a crimson-coloured, velvet Christian Siriano robe. Emmys host Anthony Anderson escorted Applegate on stage to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s Love and Marriage, the theme track of the Applegate-led Nineteen Eighties and ’90s sitcom, Married… with Children.
Applegate at first hid her face in opposition to Anderson’s shoulder as the group of celebrities rose to their ft in cheers and applause.
“Thank you so much. Oh my god,” Applegate gasped, visibly emotional.
Even nonetheless, the beloved actor cracked jokes, telling the viewers that they had been “shaming me with disability by standing up.”
Since her MS prognosis, Applegate, like many sufferers, has had to make use of a wheelchair and different mobility aids to fight the degenerative autoimmune illness. MS, which impacts the mind and spinal wire, brings on a slew of signs, from muscle stiffness to vertigo and bladder points. Currently, there may be no treatment.
When the viewers laughed, Applegate boasted that her physique was “not by Ozempic,” a jab on the common weight-loss drug utilized by many celebrities.
As she spoke, the group continued to cheer for Applegate, who playfully chided, “We don’t have to applaud every time I do something.”
Applegate was nominated for an Emmy as finest lead actress in a comedy for Dead to Me however misplaced out to Quinta Brunson of Abbott Elementary.
Christian Siriano, who designed Applegate’s Emmys robe, shared a behind-thescenes glimpse of the actor in her glam earlier than the Emmys ceremony.
“This incredible woman #christinaapplegate tonight in Siriano silk velvet for the #emmys. Let me tell you MS is a nasty disease and this beauty is so strong and just inspiring,” the designer wrote on Instagram. “Tonight she is nominated and so deserves this.”
Applegate earlier mentioned her final public look as an actor can be on the Screen Actors Guild Awards in February 2023.
In May, Applegate informed Vanity Fair she’s going to possible not return to performing attributable to her prognosis, ending her decades-long profitable profession. Instead, Applegate mentioned she will be able to see herself probably persevering with to work as a producer or voice actor.
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