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The Viewcohosts banded together to slam Megyn Kelly over the latter’s shaming of Christina Applegate amid her multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis.
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Kelly said on her talk show that Applegate’s advocacy for MS visibility was “a wild goose chase.”
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“Are you crazy?” Whoopi Goldberg asked, while Ana Navarro compared Kelly to a “fungus.”
The Viewcohosts took an impassioned stand against Megyn Kelly over the controversial conservative’s incendiary remarks about actress Christina Applegate‘s multiple sclerosis misdagnosis.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg blasted Kelly on Thursday over the latter’s comments shaming the Dead to Me star for breaking down in tears in a recent episode of her MeSsy podcast, in which she revealed that doctors misdiagnosed her with the neurological condition five years ago. Applegate added that she’s still experiencing debilitating symptoms stemming from unknown origin.
“This is, like, the problem with celebrities like wanting to lean into their health problems,” Kelly said in a clip from her Megyn Kelly Show that The View played on air during the Hot Topics discussion. In the footage, Kelly pointed out that Applegate hosted the MS-focused podcast with fellow actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, but criticized that she’s “now come out to tell us all she doesn’t actually have it, this has all been a wild goose chase. She’s crying now because I guess she no longer gets to be the face of this disease.”
Goldberg looked to The View‘s camera to deliver a message to Kelly, whom she reminded that, as Applegate and a neurological doctor pointed out on the aforementioned MeSsy episode, “there isn’t a single test that determines someone has MS.”
“So, let me ask you, m’am, you think Christina wanted to have MS so she could have a good time? Are you crazy?” Goldberg said, before panelist Sara Haines asked, “Who wants to be the face of MS?”
Haines called the disease a “debilitating, degenerative, neurological disease,” and pointed out that Applegate is still “hurting” without a new diagnosis.
“Talk about kicking someone when they’re down. She got a diagnosis and wanted to help other people,” Haines continued. “[She’s] now feeling the pain of not knowing what her identity is and, more importantly, what her diagnosis is. Megyn Kelly sold her soul for politics. Which one did a better job here? She literally has sunk so low in my book.”
Republican cohost Ana Navarro admitted that she didn’t “even want to get into the Megyn Kelly of it all because I think she’s like a fungus that thrives on oxygen that she gets by purposely creating outrage” on sensitive topics.
“She’s a bully,” Haines added. Navarro alleged that Kelly is “a bully for money,” before connecting the topic to her own husband, Al Cardenas, and her recent reveal that he has Parkinson’s, another neurological disease that celebrities like Michael J. Fox and Carly Simon also have.
“Neurological diseases are incredibly difficult to diagnose and they are often misdiagnosed because there’s a lot of symptoms that mimic other symptoms,” Navarro said, praising Fox and Simon for helping people “destigmatize” the conditions through their public advocacy.
“I often say on this show, when you have a platform, there’s great responsibility with that, and when someone is using it for good, unlike Megyn Kelly, I think they should be applauded,” legal expert Sunny Hostin chimed in, before calling Kelly “an ugly person” over her remarks about Applegate.
“The idea that you would come out and say something like this, Megyn, is unbelievable, that you don’t have the wherewithal to recognize that someone is saying, ‘This is what’s happening to me,'” Goldberg said at the end of the segment. “That’s how we get through our lives. We connect to each other. That’s what this is about, and I’m going to connect to you and say rethink your position on this, because you’re wrong.”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Applegate and Kelly for comment.
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Applegate revealed on her podcast that a recent round of tests indicated that she did not, in fact, have MS, despite undergoing years of treatment for the disorder.
“You don’t get misdiagnosed, and then all of a sudden I’m better. I haven’t gotten better,” she told Sigler, who was diagnosed with MS in 2001. “I’ve gotten worse, in some ways. I’m back at square one. I don’t know what’s going on with me. That’s going to be an online investigation my doctors are going to get into to find out what’s been happening since 2021. Why did this happen? I have every symptom of someone with MS. Every single one. We both know that there are many things that mirror MS. Many different things.”
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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