Introducing, Selma Blair Is a Poignant, Candid Documentary about Life with - and Beyond - Multiple Sclerosis

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Introducing, Selma Blair is a poignant, candid look at life with - and beyond - multiple sclerosis. AmyTVGal's review of the discoveryplus doc:

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in August 2019. “I am not uncomfortable with sickness. I’m uncomfortable with permanent sickness,” she explains. MS isn’t the flu. It won’t go away. It affects Blair’s speech, her gait and her mental clarity. She has good days, bad days and awful days. She uses a cane. She often has to crawl up the stairs.

We see her sans make-up, bald and in a hospital gown. We see her naked and writhing in post-surgery pain. “This is what happens that I don’t want people to see,” she laments as her speech begins to slur in the movie’s opening moments. But it’s clear that she’s made the decision to hold nothing back, to let viewers see her like this. It never feels like the movie is exploiting her.

And no topic is off-limits. Blair discusses her very public breakdown on an airplane flight in 2016. “It was the worst thing I’ve ever done as a parent,” she says while expressing gratitude that Bleick did not try to take Arthur away from her. We learn about Blair’s mother in bits and pieces. Her voice on the phone, old pictures of her and Blair’s stories. Although we never see her mother, what comes starkly into focus is a woman who was not supportive of her youngest daughter.

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