Christina Applegate
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What are the key themes in Christina Applegate's memoir?
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They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one back on me. My guest this week is Christina Applegate. I said to myself, take this all in. A few things became clear to me after reading Christina Applegate's new memoir. She wants no one's pity. She doesn't need anyone's approval, except maybe her daughter's. And she is a survivor. On the outside, she was this megastar of TV and movies, but you can only compartmentalize pain for so long, and her new memoir feels like liberation to me. An MS diagnosis has made life hard in new ways, but this is a person who has fought for every moment of the life she has built for herself and takes none of it for granted. Her memoir is called You with the Sad Eyes, and I'm so very happy to welcome Christina Applegate to Wildcard.
Hi. Hi, Rachel. Hi. I'm happy to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thanks for doing this. Yeah. I'm excited. And we're just going to get going. Okay. With the memories round. Okay? Sounds good. Let's do it. So, first three cards in the memories round. You choose one, two, or three. Two. Two. What's a place that shaped you just as much as any person did? The set. The set. Yeah. I know that sounds douché, but really. I mean, you did spend a lot of time on them. 50 years on them. So it really was a place that defined how I operate in the world, how I treat people, how I learned to be professional. Mm-hmm. how I learned to do what I do by watching and being and osmosis. And so, yeah, I mean, it really was that place for me. How old were you the first time you worked on a set?
Um... It's weird because I started so young, but I really like when I started doing like episodics, when I was like doing family ties and all that stuff, those are the memories that I have. And that's before I married with children and before I did this other show called Washington. And so young, young teenagers, like 13, 12, 12, Charles in charge. I was 12, I think. But I had been doing it for a long time before that. I just don't have memory of it. They're in my diary somewhere. Did the set feel like a safe place to you? Absolutely. 100%. A lot safer than the place that I grew up in. But at the time, given that that cancer that was in our life there for a while, when he was gone... This is your mom's partner.
Yeah. It was just the two of us. And she was pretty great, I have to say. Nancy Pretty is a pretty great lady. So it was good. It's just I felt really like a family. Yeah. On set. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Moving on. Next three in memories. Three. One, two, or three. Three. What's something your parents taught you to love? Hmm. I mean, oddly, for such a self-deprecating person that I am and, you know, been dealing with my own issues with self-love, like my mom really taught me to really have that, have power. Let's just call it that. Like have worth, knowing my worth. And I think that was a huge, that's a huge thing for me. But you didn't answer, she taught me to love myself. Why did that not feel like the right word?
How does Christina Applegate cope with her MS diagnosis?
It didn't feel like the right word because I don't, you know, that's a hard one. But I do have worth. And I know that I'm important. And that's something that she really nailed into me, that I'm important. How did your mom do that? Because she was... You write in the book a lot about how your mom was struggling with her own sense of self.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the key themes in Christina Applegate's memoir?
0:00–5:16
2
How does Christina Applegate cope with her MS diagnosis?
5:16–8:13
3
What experiences shaped Christina Applegate's childhood?
8:13–16:47
4
How did Christina's mother influence her self-worth?
16:47–24:26
5
What challenges did Christina face in her acting career?
24:26–28:33
6
How does Christina Applegate view motherhood?
28:33–32:19
7
What role does humor play in Christina's life?
32:19–37:39
8
How does Christina Applegate find joy in her daily life?
37:39–41:28