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Christina Applegate is hoping that friends can give her some grace.

The Dead to Me star—who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021—recently shared that making plans with friends looks a little different these days.

“I just say to people,” the 52-year-old said on the Aug. 20 episode of her podcast MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie-Lynn Sigler, “I hope you give me the grace of canceling right before.”

So even though the Anchorman alum admitted she loves to stay home in bed, she is still willing to go out with friends, albeit with the “disclaimer.”

“I always say, ‘Sure, if you want to go to lunch, just know—and you have to know this and you can't be mad at me—that if right before you come to pick me up, if I say, ‘Can't do it,’ you can't be mad,'” she explained. “It's my little disclaimer.”

She continued, “If I’m puking, or I can't walk, you think I'm going to go out to a restaurant or go do anything? No, I'm not going to do that.”

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Christina was also open about the toll MS—an autoimmune disorder that attacks the central nervous system and erodes the ability for impulses to travel between one’s nerves and their brain, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine—has taken on her body.

“I have no muscles in my legs, which I showed you. I look like Humpty Dumpty, like my little tiny weird legs and then my big menopausal belly,” she told her cohost, referencing her lack of physical activity because of her disease. “Like if I go up a hill, my heart starts beating really fast and I think I'm going to have a heart attack because my heart's just… the muscle isn't there.”

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The Married…With Children alum, though, recently shared how she finds relief from the difficulties of the illness.

“I find reality television very useful. That’s kind of it for me,” Christina told James Corden during his SiriusXM show This Life of Mine. “Give me any of it. Give me a Vanderpump [Rules], give me a Below Deck, give me a [Real] Housewife, even give me Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay—I'll watch like nine seasons of that in like two days.”

Read on to see more of Christina’s journey with multiple sclerosis.