Selma Blair Breaks Silence on How She Reacted to Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis in Revealing Interview (Video)

Selma Blair is speaking out for the first time about her Multiple Scleroris diagnosis in a television interview with Good Morning America.

“I am doing very well,” the 46-year-old actress told Robin Roberts. “I am very happy to see you. Being able to just put out what being in the middle of an aggressive form of Multiple sclerosis is like. So my speech, I have spasmodic dysphonia right now. … It is interesting to be here to say this is what my particular case looks like right now.”

Upon finally being diagnosed, Selma said, “I had tears. They weren’t tears of panic, they were tears of knowing that I now had to give in to a body that had loss of control and there was some relief in that.”

“There were times when I couldn’t take it and I was really struggling with how I’m going to get by in life,” Selma said, recalling an instance where “I dropped my son [Arthur, 7] 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.”

Selma eventually said she spoke to actor Michael J. Fox, who revealed years ago that he had Parkinson’s disease.

Selma walked her first red carpet since the diagnosis this past weekend. See more photos in the gallery below.

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