Selma Blair Shares 'Great' Prognosis After Learning She's In Remission For MS

Updated September 8, 2021

Ever since she took her diagnosis public in 2018, actress Selma Blair has been remarkably candid about her struggles with multiple sclerosis.

And through this open approach to her condition and how it's affected her life, fans have gained some haunting perspective on how dire her situation seemed at times and celebrated her triumphs along the way with her.

However, Blair was reluctant to share what might be the most promising news of all until recently. And considering how much she's gone through up to this point, it's understandable that it might feel like she'd be jinxing it.

Although she had lived with chronic pains as well as mobility and memory issues for years, it was only fairly recently that Blair actually discovered what was causing them.

As Good Morning America reported, this was in large part because doctors were often dismissive of her symptoms and suggested that her work and life as a single mother were simply exhausting her.

As she put it, "I have really felt unwell and misunderstood for so long that it's just, me."

So when she finally received her MS diagnosis, she said she cried with relief because something could finally be done.

However, that relief would soon give way to a new and difficult journey.

According to Good Morning America, she would spend the following years undergoing chemotherapy and stem cell treatments in a process she described as "rebooting" her nervous system.

But while those stem cell treatments would prove effective after a year of treatment, Blair found it hard to accept that her condition was improving.

She said this comes down to a lifetime of "baggage in the brain" that still requires some acceptance and figuring out but she also didn't want to make any announcements until her progress stopped seeming like a fluke.

In her words, "I was reluctant to talk about it because I felt this need to be more healed and more fixed."

However, it seems that she's ready to more confidently state that she's in remission and has been feeling significantly better lately.

As she said, "My prognosis is great. Stem cell [treatments] put me in remission. It took about a year after stem cells for the inflammation and lesions to really go down."

We can only hope that this is a sign of things to come.

h/t: Good Morning America

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