Actress Selma Blair says she's in remission from multiple sclerosis

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She underwent hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, which uses stem cells derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood or umbilical cord blood.

"It took about a year after stem cell for the inflammation and lesions to really go down, so I was reluctant to talk about it because I felt this need to be more healed," she said."I don't have any new lesions forming."

"There's still maintenance, treatment and glitches, and wonderful things," said Blair, who at times spoke in a halting voice on Zoom.The actor reveals her fight with MS in Introducing, Selma Blair, an intimate documentary directed by Rachel Fleit. It debuts Oct 15 in theatres and begins streaming Oct 21 on US streaming service Discovery+.

"I've been carrying around some sort of chronic illness, either building up or had for a long time, so it wasn't a surprise to me," she said."Just the name was a surprise." "I really do feel now, with this pandemic, we've all gotten a kind of diagnosis that's incurable. It's called living right now," she said."Everyone has really realised our mortality. It taught me a lot more patience and understanding."

 

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