Selma Blair Says She Hurts 'All the Time' Amid MS Remission
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00:00 I'm still in remission. I'm due for another MRI and blood work, but I seem to be doing fine and this helps so much.
00:07 Selma Blair delivering a candid life update amid her MS remission.
00:11 You know, it is such, for me, it was such a kind of random and variable and sometimes really debilitating and then surprisingly kind of okay.
00:21 The star, who's been in remission since 2021, is sharing details in a new post on Instagram about how the autoimmune disease is affecting her now.
00:30 I hurt all the time. I say that only for you people that hurt also. I get it. It still makes me sad, but I just want to sleep and then get on my horse and be better.
00:41 I'm a beginner every day. So it's like Groundhog Day and I am doing really well.
00:45 There's no complaining, but I don't know if I'll ever have the coordination or balance or stamina that I want to.
00:51 It's a really mental kind of diagnosis for me, you know, but I'm doing really well.
00:59 Selma explains that despite her MS no longer progressing, there are now additional factors causing her pain.
01:06 For all of us, just aging, it hurts. You have to stretch. But for me, it's hard to stretch because the ailerons stand loose.
01:13 It's just like your muscles just aren't as stable. So the ailerons stand loose will make me really, really, really stiff because I'll pull my muscles too easily and then they're like slack.
01:22 It's just like one of those extra things that turns into a chronic thing and you have to watch because people think stretching is so good for you and I'm technically not allowed to stretch because I'm always stretching.
01:30 But she continues to look for the positives.
01:33 The MS is fine. I'm still in remission. I'm due for another MRI and blood work, but I seem to be doing fine and this helps so much.
01:41 I'm still lucky, still grateful, still okay, but still a bummer.
01:45 My health is good. I've been in remission since I had a bone marrow transplant, HSCT, to stop the progression of the MS that had been for really many, many years burning.
01:58 And so it took a while to recover, but I am feeling really, really much stronger now. I'm building stamina and it's good. Everything is good.
02:06 Selma was first diagnosed with MS in 2018, only a couple years later, giving fans an inside look at her journey with the disease in a documentary called Introducing Selma Blair.
02:17 I would like it to be as dramatic as I am. I was told to make plans for dying, not because I have MS, because I'm fighting MS.
02:26 I love you, Mama.
02:28 The scene of him shaving your head, like that hit me on so many levels.
02:34 Well, I thought, you know, I asked him before, I said, "Is there anything that makes you nervous about me going away to Chicago and doing this?"
02:43 And then, you know, he's like, "No." And then he said, "Maybe, yeah, coming home and having no hair at all."
02:51 And so I said, "Well, you can shave it."
02:53 It was to have him be part of it, to help be in control of maybe like a first image of mom looking different.
03:01 So it was pretty, that was pretty easy and a nice moment.
03:05 And it makes me feel better knowing Arthur has a say, not a say really, but is included.
03:12 I think this can be validating for a lot of people who, all of us, we really do all have a challenge all the time.
03:21 And so this can fit into anybody's box to be some type of reassurance and affirmation that you can be scared, that you can have better days ahead, that you can want to live.
03:34 [Music]