“I finally just felt seen” - When Selma Blair was ‘thrilled’ with her medical diagnosis

In August 2018, actress Selma Blair, 52, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Throughout her battle with the disease—from receiving her medical assessment results to recovering completely—she elaborated on her journey in many interviews. She has been quite vocal publicly.

On April 30, the actress sat for an exclusive interview with People magazine and admitted that she felt “thrilled” to finally understand the immune disease affecting her, and how she had to cope with the recovery process.

Selma shared:

"I finally just felt seen. I kind of joke like, wait, there's receipts. This validates this vision here, this validates this or this or this, that people wouldn't really see because with relapsing MS, it can go away. It can relapse."

For Selma Blair, her MS diagnosis was more of a relief. She spoke with the outlet last month at The Daily Front Row’s 9th Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards and announced that she is now relapse-free and “doing amazingly well.”

Selma Blair's reaction to her multiple sclerosis diagnosis was quite the opposite

Instead of feeling stressed or remaining in agony, the Legally Blonde actress felt differently knowing she had MS years ago. In her latest conversation with the outlet, she further continued:

"It's so funny. I felt like people thought it had to be some tragic thing, but I was like, 'No, you don't understand.' I was feeling tragic inside before, and thinking this is just all psychosomatic and how can I change myself?"

During her medical recovery phase, Selma Blair also thought about other patients dealing with medical crises. Recounting those days during her interview, she stated:

"How do they do that? How do they feel that way? How does that mom carry her baby and stay awake? I just did not understand how I was so different from people, but yet totally kind of fine-ish."

Elaborating more on MS and relapse, the Cruel Intentions actress explained,

"It's like relapse remitting, so it can relapse and it can remit, and so as a kid you'd get something checked and then you'd go back [and] it's not quite there, but you're left with the shadow of it."

Today, Selma Blair is strong and determined to fight against everything. However, the journey to achieving her resilience took her a few years. She acknowledged how she needed a lot of time to accept what she was suffering from.

She encountered different symptoms, causing further issues. She later shared:

"So my whole life felt kind of like gaslighting, even though no one was doing it intentionally."

Now, she has healed, learned, experienced, and seen a lot throughout her recovery period. Recalling her experience, she added:

"And that's the part that I want to just tell people. Sometimes, if we're lucky enough, we're still here at the end of these years to get better."

Selma Blair is no longer fearful of the concept of death. She is “not scared necessarily of dying,” as she has embraced and accepted the universal truth that death is inevitable.

Stating “we all die,” she chimed in:

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"I'm just so curious and I just wanted to hear everything about people's experiences."

During this recent chat, she emphasized her wish to know what others experienced.

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