Christina Applegate is clarifying comments she made earlier this month on her and Jamie-Lynn Sigler 's MeSsy podcast , on which the former Married...
with Children star expressed she doesn't enjoy living. The 52-year-old actress prefaced her explanation by underscoring the soothing antidote that it's OK to not be OK. Applegate said that after sharing she's "in a depression right now" on the June 4 episode and that being "trapped in this darkness" resulted in her not enjoying living and not enjoying things anymore, people from all walks of life reached out to her to comfort her.
What many failed to understand, Applegate said, is that when she expressed those sentiments it's something she was feeling at the time, adding that she's not a proponent of holding things in when you're not OK, which is the whole point of her and Sigler's podcast -- a platform where they can express their moments and heal with a community that shares their same struggles. "I'm going to address something that recently happened ..
. I was talking about some dark stuff that I was thinking and feeling ..
. I feel like when we hold things in we give them power. I also think that there's so much shame a lot of people feel when they're going through mental health issues .
.. and when people holds those in, because they're so afraid to say how they truly feel, we give it immense power," Applegate said.
"Not only holding things in gives it power but it also can cause disease in your body -- cancer, all sorts of th.
