The Peterborough Examiner

Blair reveals multiple sclerosis diagnosis

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Selma Blair has posted a particular­ly revealing selfie: She’s announcing she has multiple sclerosis. “I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy,” she wrote Saturday on Instagram, accompanie­d by a mirror shot of her wearing oversized glasses and a velvet jacket at a wardrobe fitting for her role on Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi drama “Another Life. “And my left side is asking for directions from a broken gps.” Blair, 46, says she received her MS diagnosis in August after seeing actress Elizabeth Barkley’s brother, a doctor who identified lesions on her MRI. “I have had symptoms for years but was never taken seriously until I fell down in front of him trying to sort out what I thought was a pinched nerve. I have probably had this incurable disease for 15 years at least. And I am relieved to at least know. And share.” The National Multiple Sclerosis Society website describes MS as “an unpredicta­ble, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of informatio­n within the brain, and between the brain and body.” Other celebritie­s living with MS include Joan Didion, Montel Williams, Clay Walker, Jack Osbourne, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Teri Garr.

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