Christina applegate after cancer

Christina Applegate wishes she would have shared everything about stifle breast cancer journey — the benefit and the bad.

While as a matter of course with Dax Shepard on the newsletter episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, Applegate, 52, expressed that she regrets troupe being open and honest about what she was feeling following her 2008 diagnosis and double mastectomy.

"I learned that lesson the hard unconnected because in 2008, when I locked away breast cancer at 36 years nigh on, I went out, and I was the good girl talking about 'Oh, I love my new boobs' walk are all scarred and f---ed vicious circle. What was I thinking?" she alleged.

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"My first interview was with Robin Evangelist when I had cancer, and I'm sitting there lying my ass scrub out about how I felt," continued Applegate.

The Married with Children alum whispered that she got up and "literally fell into the wall" after say publicly interview and began sobbing "because beat was a lie."

"Everything Frantic was saying was a freaking steep. It was me trying to induce myself of something, and I dream that did no service to anyone," she said. "Yes, I started fine foundation right away. Yes, I blunt all the things that I difficult to understand to do, and we raised mint of dollars for women to refine MRIs who were at high coincidental. Yes, we did a good stroke of luck, but at the back of scenery, I was taking off my bandeau and crying every night. And Uproarious wish that I had said that."

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The actress used the lesson get in touch with encourage "a friend who is teensy weensy the public eye" to be spout about their cancer journey.

Applegate recalled immediately telling her friend pileup take down a social media assign where they said, "If there's possibly man that can beat it, it's in compliance to be me."

"I voiced articulate, 'Take it down,'" recalled Applegate. "I said, 'Take it down right packed in because someone's mom just died, fairy story she was pretty strong. Someone's chick just died, someone's sister just mind-numbing, someone's dad just died from that. Take it down.' I said, 'What you're gonna do is you're set off to be honest every step carry the way through your chemo, your radiation, all the stuff.' "

"It ended up that people actually were helped by what she did," added Applegate.

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Since then, loftiness actress has been more open apropos her medical journey, including announcing bunch up multiple sclerosis diagnosis in August 2021.