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Christina Applegate was moved to tears throughout Monday’s Emmy Awards telecast when she appeared on stage to current the awards for excellent supporting actress and excellent lead actress in a comedy sequence.
The viewers rose for a standing ovation as Applegate – who revealed in 2021 that she was recognized with a number of sclerosis – walked on stage whereas holding a cane and was escorted to the rostrum by Emmys host Anthony Anderson.
“Thanks a lot! Oh my God! You’re completely shaming me [and my] incapacity by standing up,” Applegate joked, sparking laughter within the viewers.
She listed off a few of her notable roles all through her decades-long Hollywood profession, together with taking part in Kelly Bundy in “Married… With Youngsters,” Samantha in “Samantha Who?” and Jen Harding in “Useless To Me.”
“However only a few of you most likely know me from that debut – I’m going to cry greater than I’ve been crying – Child Burt Grizzell “‘Days of Our Lives,’” she stated, referring to her first-ever display screen credit score from 1972.
Displaying a photograph of herself as Child Burt Grizzell, Applegate hilariously added, “it was actually a breakout function” and went on to say that over the course of her profession, it’s “been an honor to play humorous, flawed complicated characters.”
Applegate was additionally a nominee at Monday’s present, incomes recognition for her efficiency in Netflix’s “Useless to Me” within the excellent lead actress in a comedy sequence class, which “Abbott Elementary” star Quinta Brunson ended up successful.
In Might 2023, Applegate advised Self-importance Truthful in an interview that her work on “Useless To Me” may simply be her final as an actor as she lives together with her a number of sclerosis analysis.
“I’m most likely not going to work on-camera once more,” Applegate stated on the time, including that whereas she liked her forged and crew, working had been a “struggle.”
She is going to, nonetheless, at all times savor the friendship she constructed together with her co-star Linda Cardellini, saying, “I’m so glad that I went out with somebody who’s by far the best actress I’ve ever labored with in my whole life, if not the best human I’ve ever identified.”