.SelmaBlair discusses her battle with MS in the new doc IntroducingSelmaBlair, streaming now on DiscoveryPlus.
“Since my son was born, I’ve never been OK,” Blair candidly admits early on in the film when she’s discussing the first signs of her MS. “At first I knew I wasn’t doing well and I just kept going to the doctors. And they just said, ‘No. It’s just sadness...’ I was like, ‘I can’t get it together. I can’t function.’” Not long after that she became housebound and more reclusive in nature.
However, after she made that choice, she reveals, “I made the mistake of telling someone... He was like, ‘You’re not going to make it.’” Since then, she realized she could only focus on herself and what was the right choice for her. “I’m afraid to talk about it because I don’t know what to expect,” she says.
Later, when Blair is forced to go into isolation at the hospital, she chronicles everything on her cellphone. “I don’t feel great. That’s for sure,” she says at one point, admitting that “it’s a bad day.” Later, she bounces back as the transplant day nears. “It’s weird. I feel like I’m on set, an abandoned set,” she says during the transplant process.
In the documentary, she recounts several heartbreaking stories, including one scary moment that made headlines in 2016. “I went on this trip with Arthur and his dad,” Blair says, revealing it was the first time they were all together after a contentious time in their lives. As a result, she spent most of the trip drinking in her hotel room. “It is the worst thing I’ve ever done as a parent... And thank God no one was hurt.
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