Selma Blair's Multiple Sclerosis Battle In Her Own Words

It's been three years since Selma Blair found out she had multiple sclerosis, and she has been constantly open about her life with it.

First rising to fame with films like 'Cruel Intentions,' 'Legally Blonde', and 'After,' it was in 2018 she revealed she was diagnosed with MS.

“I was in this wardrobe fitting two days ago. And I am in the deepest gratitude. So profound, it is, I have decided to share. The brilliant costumer #Allisaswanson not only designs the pieces #harperglass will wear on this new #Netflix show, but she carefully gets my legs in my pants, pulls my tops over my head, buttons my coats and offers her shoulder to steady myself. I have #multiplesclerosis.”

“I am in an exacerbation. By the grace of the lord, and will power and the understanding producers at Netflix, I have a job. A wonderful job. I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken gps. But we are doing it. And I laugh and I don’t know exactly what I will do precisely but I will do my best.”

Through the years, she has remained candid about her challenges, and even starred in a documentary about the diagnoses, 'Introducing, Selma Blair.'

“We have a long time to be dead and I spent so long trying to kill myself, or numb myself, or check out — or figure out how to be alive by being half dead,. And now I just want to help other people feel better.”

While navigating MS, she chose to sign up for 'Dancing With the Stars' season 31.

“Once I actually stood with Sasha [Farber, my DWTS partner] and really realized, like, ‘Oh, he can help me in general.' [I’m] so excited for camaraderie, for support [from] people. I did not realize how much I missed that and … there were terror and nerves [because] I don’t have experience dancing, like, with steps, I can pose like a dancer for maybe two seconds.”

“Once I decided [to join the show] and convinced my team that I could do this [and] that it wasn’t gonna be too dangerous for me that I could do this [because] we do these things we wanna find joy in and then I’m all in.”

Before the debut, she attended the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2022, and walked onto the stage with a cane to present the final award of the night. She was met with a standing ovation.