Applegate recalled the health experience in the latest installment of the Mess podcast, which she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

'Can I be honest?' In the episode, Applegate explained how her experience began when she contracted COVID from a close friend, who "dropped the ball and went to the bowling alley, and came home with stuff," reports People.com. According to. ,

The actress, who revealed that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in August 2021, said it turned into long-term COVID, which left her with Chase infection, where her heart started doing "weird things" , where it suddenly intensified. ,

“P****ng my a**,” she recalled.
, I was so sick, I couldn't eat, I couldn't do anything."

After performing a stool test, she was diagnosed with sapovirus, which, according to the National Institutes of Health, "is responsible for both sporadic cases and occasional outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis."

The actress said, "This is what happens when you swallow someone else's poop in your food. Someone else's poop went into my mouth and I ate it."

Applegate believes she got the virus from eating a salad at a restaurant she frequented for 15 years and said she "woke up at three in the morning in a pool of water."

"Didn't know this happened, and trying to change your sheets when you have MS at three in the morning, that's not fun. But that brings me to my next point we can talk about: I'm wearing diapers. ," Applegate said.

He added that they are not "pretty" or "accessible", to which Sigler, 42, agreed.