LOVE SAVED ME
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Happy and healthy, Selma Blair looked radiant as she hit the Los Angeles Farmers Market on July 5. Keeping close to partner Ron Carlson, the pair donned masks to pick up some groceries before grabbing a bite to eat. Having kept a low profile while the city has been in lockdown due to being immunocompromised, the actress was thrilled to be out and about once again. Her cane – which has become a necessity for Blair since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) back in 2018 – was a no-show, with the actress instead walking arm-in-arm with her man.
Those closest to the star are thrilled to see her thriving once again. The 48-year-old has had a rough few years, revealing she was suffering from an aggressive form of the incurable illness in October 2018. “I have #multiplesclerosis,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken GPS. But we are doing it. And I laugh and I don’t know exactly what I will do precisely but I will do my best.”
The degenerative disease causes pain, loss of coordination and nerve damage – with Blair undergoing experimental chemotherapy last year to help ease her symptoms. But the actress has continued to remain positive throughout her ordeal.
“I’m really looking into the moment, because now I’m a middle-aged woman with an incurable disease and it doesn’t even matter anymore,” Blair told Miley Cyrus during an interview for the singer’s Bright
Minded Instagram show in April. “Anyone can be, God forbid, hit by a car on a Tuesday afternoon, so we all really do what we can to take advantage of it and help our children, parents or neighbours.”
Blair’s reignited relationship with Carlson has also played a huge part in her rehabilitation. The pair rekindled their romance earlier this year, after she split with David Lyons back in December. Blair and Carlson started dating in 2015, before calling time on their romance just seven months before Blair’s diagnosis. And in an Instagram post on January 23, the actress gushed about how they had found their way back to each other.
“People come into our lives. And sometimes they go. Or you go. And you go on. And you try to put the pieces together in your
“I have had really good people in my life”
mind to make sense of it,” she shared alongside a snap of them together. “And sometimes, when you are ready, you may find that person again. Unexpectedly, loving them in ways you couldn’t before. I have had really good people in my life. I am the luckiest woman. This is the person I want to lean on as well as hold up. For good. I love you @ronnniecarlson.”
With Carlson, her son Arthur, 8, and a network of supporters – including long-time friends Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jnr, Kris Jenner and Jaime King – around her, Blair is finding her rhythm once more. “I got lost again a couple years ago with sickness. I am finding my way back,” she shared on Instagram on June 24, the day after her 48th birthday. “I have found so much wisdom, as goofy as I may be, in the chaos by this age … I thank you so profoundly for being by my side and allowing me to be by yours in some way.”