Joy in visibility: Selma Blair’s MS journey
It took years for actress Selma Blair to find the role of a lifetime, and joy, in a shocking diagnosis. Discovering in her 40s that decades of health concerns and misunderstandings were the result of multiple sclerosis, Blair transformed her diagnosis into action. Around 1 million Americans are known to have the auto-immune disease MS, which can impact the brain and spinal cord, as well as the body’s ability to communicate. Selma Blair takes Becky Quick through her journey of self-acceptance.
Chapters:
00:40 Introduction
02:03 Selma’s Story
08:17 The Road to Diagnosis
14:23 Everyone has Something
24:19 Role of a Lifetime
Watch the last few episodes of The Path:
• ‘The Story I Never Thought I Would Tell’: https://youtu.be/-SD8-YcQdb4
• ‘This Isn’t Normal, And It Isn’t Pain Free’: https://youtu.be/7iUQav3gFy4
• ‘What If We Can Get To Them Before They Have Symptoms?: How Florida Passed The Sunshine Genetics Law’: https://youtu.be/gYkS3WB8PNc
•’It’s All a Miracle: Beast Games’ Jeffrey Allen Wins Biggest Prize In History’: https://youtu.be/CfLIEXTzv7w
• ‘Tailor-made: The world’s first personalized gene-editing treatment’: https://youtu.be/xepWW6yI_P8
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Produced by: Katie Kramer, Brad Quick, Kelly Lin, Leanne Miller and Jennifer Zweben
Edited by: John Lazration
Camera: Marco Mastrorilli, Gerard Miller, Oscar Molina, Mark Aster, Alex Bedoya
Audio: Everett Wong
Graphics by: Jason Reginato, Lindsey Jacobson
Additional Materials: Selma Blair, Getty Images, Versant Media, Celebrity Footage, American Heart Association / American Stroke Association, Alamy, E! News
Audio excerpted with permission of Penguin Random House Audio from MEAN BABY by Selma Blair, excerpt read by the author. Selma Blair ℗ 2022 Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
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