Selma Blairhas shared a health update following her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
The 53-year-old man Legally blonde The star was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease, which affects the brain and spinal cord, in 2018. Symptoms can include numbness or tingling, dizziness, loss of coordination or difficulty walking, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Blair made an appearance on Tuesday's episode of Today and shared that, despite feeling “very tired,” she feels “very well.”
“That's the truth. So I don't want any chronically ill people wondering, 'How do you do that?' I'm like, 'Oh no, no, that's makeup and happiness.' There is fatigue,'” he shared. “But I'm really good. I don't have any relapses. I'm happy.”
According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, an MS relapse is described as the appearance of new symptoms or worsening of old ones for at least 24 hours when 30 days have passed since the last relapse.
During his appearance in TodayBlair noted that she is “ready” to get back to work next month, when she will be filming. Ethan Almighty – Ethan's Law. The film is based on the viral true story of Jeff Callaway, who adopted a severely abandoned dog, Ethan, after he was found in a Kentucky Humane Society parking lot.
In the new film, Blair plays Claire Patterson, who is struggling with questions of faith and personal loss, but has a powerful shift in perspective when she meets Ethan.
Outside of her acting career, she partnered with Mersea to launch a limited-edition pajama line, Sea La Vie, which was inspired by her experience with MS and her desire for comfort.
“I would say there are lovely personal touches,” she said while describing the pajamas she wore on the show. “[Mersea] He was very supportive, wonderful and loving to me when I was going through some challenges. So when I got better, I called them and said, 'Girls, could you collaborate with me?'”
He cruel intentions The star has previously opened up about being in a good place amid her MS. she said People in April 2025 that he was “incredibly well” and “relapse-free.”
“I've been feeling great for about a year,” she told the publication at the time. “But I'm finally well enough to really, genuinely… always try to feel as good as possible, but now that I have stamina and energy and getting out and about it's not as scary.”
In 2023, Blair said British Vogue that his doctor initially advised him to keep his diagnosis a secret.
“The advice was to keep it to myself. That job 'I wouldn't have to know'. People didn't feel safe sharing those things,” she told the publication.
Blair detailed some of the physical challenges she faced during her childhood, decades before she was diagnosed with MS. At the age of seven, he told Fashion, he lost the use of his right eye, left leg and bladder.
Although he didn't realize it at the time, the symptoms he had were a result of juvenile MS. Her doctor at the time did not take her health problems seriously and her condition as a child went undiagnosed.
“If you're a child with those symptoms, you get an MRI,” he said. “If you're a girl, they call you 'crazy'.”
