Jamie Lynn Sigler

to a version of me once upon a time that felt so alone and so isolated in her struggles and didn't know how to ask for help and didn't know she deserved that help and didn't open herself up to the love and support that she could have received.

And I know that that is a story that so many of us can relate to.

And this reckoning and this opportunity to sort of rewrite the past is possible.

And just the

The freedom that I feel in my life and even in my body, despite being in one that is disabled, is a space I never thought I'd be able to exist in.

First, I want to tell her that I'm really proud of her and that she's much stronger than she thinks.

I know the burden that she's carrying is a heavy one.

But also, I want to promise her that everything that she's going through will shape her and show her what she's made of and make her grow.

And she will have gratitude one day for all of it.

How did you get to that place?

Yeah.

You know, I was so fragile.

I was so afraid.

I was already at this place when I was diagnosed where I had felt like I had so many issues.

Like every season of the show, it was like an eating disorder.

Then I had Lyme's disease.

And then I was getting married to this older man.

And it was just like,

all of these things that I, and I'm such a people pleaser, I wanna be the good girl and not be the problem.

And so by the time I was diagnosed with MS, it was like, oh my God, no, there's no way I could share this too.