Selma Blair‘s 7½-year-old sonArthur Sainthad one big question after his mother told him she had multiple sclerosis.
“After the MRI, I said, ‘I have something called multiple sclerosis,’ and he almost cried and said, ‘Will it kill you?’ ” the actress toldRobin Robertsin a Tuesday sit-down forGood Morning America— her first television interview sincerevealing her MS diagnosis in October.
“And I said, ‘No. I mean, we never know what kills us, Arthur. But this is not the doctor telling me I’m dying,’ ” recalled Blair, 46. “And he was like, ‘Oh. Okay!’ ”
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Blair shared with Roberts that she didn’t have a problem “at all” being honest with her only child about her condition, especially considering he sensed on his own that things had changed.
“Ialways want him to feel safe, never responsible for me, but he had already seen that I was falling and doing [different] things, and I was always laughing,” she said.
“And he’d imitate me,” added theCruel Intentionsactress. “I’d be like, ‘That’s fine, but don’t do that [outside] of the house. People will think you’re a jerk.’ ”
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Blair said she experienced symptoms for some time before learning she had MS but was “giving it everything to seem normal” around her son initially — including “self-medicating.”
Recounted theCan’t Hardly Waitactress, “I dropped my son off at school a mile away and before I got home I’d have to pull over and take a nap … it was killing me. And so when I got the diagnosis, I cried with relief.”
She has also learned along the way that it’s okay to take a day off if she needs it. “My son gets it and now I’velearned to not feel really guilty,” Blair explained.
source: people.com
