Jamie-Lynn Sigler ‘Almost Died’ After Surgery Complications
Jamie-Lynn Sigler reveals how she ‘almost died’ during a new episode of ‘MeSsy,’ the podcast she co-hosts with fellow actress Christina Applegate. Above, Sigler is photographed for an appearance on ‘Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen’ in September 2023.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler opened up about a near-death experience she had not too long ago during a new episode of MeSsy, the podcast she co-hosts with fellow actress Christina Applegate.
Sigler, 43, and Applegate, 52, are both battling multiple sclerosis (MS) and launched a joint podcast about their journey in March. Sigler was first diagnosed with MS when she was 20 and Applegate revealed her diagnosis in 2021.
While they often invite fellow celebrities onto the podcast, their Tuesday, June 4 episode featured the Sopranos alum and Dead to Me star chatting solo about the frustration and grief they’ve battled in connection with the disease.
After providing an update on her health, Sigler reflected that it was about one year ago that she faced her mortality amid a post-surgery complication.
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“A little less than a year ago now is when I went to India and I lived with this ashram, and I felt so awakened and connected and peaceful,” Sigler said. About two weeks after returning home, Sigler said she “had a very bad reaction to a surgery and got sepsis and was in the hospital and almost died,” an event that she hadn’t previously revealed publicly.
The mother of two said 2023 became her “year of grieving.”
“I had never in my life been more sad, felt more low,” she recalled. "But what I learned from India was I had an inability to escape it. I had to sit in it. I would scream in pillows, I would cry to girlfriends, I would—like, I reached out, I sat by myself, I got a therapist, I did all of these things I had never really done before and went through this process that was absolutely necessary.”
A year after that terrifying experience, Sigler said she recently went for an annual round of tests with her neurologist and had an honest conversation about her ongoing battle with MS. Her doctor urged her to “take the responsibility off the table that you can change your body, or that you didn’t do enough, or did too much, or whatever it was.”
Sigler told Applegate that she had “desperately needed” that perspective.
“It felt like it took so much pressure off of myself that I need to be constantly fixing myself or changing myself or healing myself,” she said.
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