Actress Selma Blair is speaking out publicly for the first time since being diagnosed with an aggressive form of Multiple Sclerosis. She told Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts that she was struggling for years but was misdiagnosed time and time again. Because of this, she says getting the actual diagnosis back in October meant “I now had to give in to a body that had loss of control, and there was some relief in that.”

The disease has progressed rapidly over the last six months and now impacts everything from her speech to her movement.


Watch her interview above.