The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler says she was “this much away from death” after undergoing surgery last year. Sigler, 43, opened up on her podcast MesSy with Christina Applegate, telling listeners, “A little less than a year ago now is when I went to India, and I lived at this ashram, and I had felt so awakened and connected and peaceful. “Two weeks later, I had a very bad reaction to a surgery and got sepsis and was in the hospital and almost died.
” She went on, “I never told anybody this. Two weeks after a year ago, right now, I was in a hospital, literally like this much away from death.” This incident, among others, meant that for Sigler, 2023 was a “year of grieving”.
“I had never in my life been more sad, felt so low,” she explained, adding she reached out to friends, spent time alone, and saw a therapist in order to cope. Sigler said this year, she went for her yearly check-up for her multiple sclerosis (MS), with which she was diagnosed when she was just 20. Over the years, she’d become frustrated that despite undergoing physical therapy, she wasn’t seeing much improvement in her health.
However, during the appointment, her doctor urged her to let go of the responsibility of “changing” her body. “It felt like it took so much pressure off of myself that I need to constantly be fixing myself or changing myself or healing myself,” the actress admitted. Applegate, 52, also suffers from MS , and spoke elsewhere in the podcast episode ab.
