Selma Blair is taking a stand in her battle with multiple sclerosis, commonly known as MS. 

The 50-year-old actress struck a powerful pose while holding a cane on the cover of British Vogue’s May 2023 issue. 

The "Cruel Intentions" star stunned in a golden-beige gown with stylish cutouts. She stood with confidence while holding her black and silver cane.

The cover read, "Selma Blair, Reframing Fashion, Dynamic, Daring & Disabled."

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"I have an emotional and physical attachment to the cane," she shared during the British Vogue cover interview. 

"I settle in my voice and body as soon as I hold [it]. It’s an extension of me. And I know it adds to visibility. So many younger people have started publicly embracing their sticks more. I do think representation matters. If I can help remove stigma or over-curiosity in a crowd for someone else, then that’s great."

Blair detailed her experience with MS and pointed out that she lived with the disease for 40 years before being diagnosed. She expressed that she’s done staying quiet on the subject.

"If you’re a boy with those symptoms, you get an MRI. If you’re a girl, you’re called ‘crazy.’"

The "Legally Blonde" star continued to candidly speak out about how she suffered from MS all those years, and doctors disregarded her symptoms for decades. 

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Blair added that when she was growing up, she would wake up in the middle of the night laughing hysterically, and as an adult she experienced "waves of uncontrollable crying that came out of nowhere."

"I just thought I was a hugely emotional person," Blair noted.

While she was not yet diagnosed with MS, Blair said, her frontal lobe became damaged, which is equivalent of a brain injury, according to the media outlet. 

She did not get a diagnosis until 40 years later.

"I looked like a ‘normal’ girl to them," she remarked, "but I was Disabled this whole time."

Blair went on to share her symptoms and said that her condition fluctuates.

She told British Vogue that on a good day, she is laughing and out of the house with friends. On a bad day, she is vomiting, collapsed in bed. 

"Sometimes I can’t eat for days, and then when I can relax, I overdo it and all the hunger rushes in. I require more sleep than a bear in winter."

Blair revealed for decades that she felt alone and ashamed living without a diagnosis that made her mind spiral into dark thoughts.

"As an adult, the lassitude and anxiety became terrifying, actually. I made mistakes. Wished myself dead. Attempted suicide. A few times. Out of desperation."

The actress first shared that she'd been diagnosed with the disease, which causes the immune system to attack the protective covering of nerve fibers and impacts communication between the brain and the body, in 2018.

She has been in remission since 2021, when she underwent stem cell transplantation to treat the condition.

The Hollywood actor reflected on her career and admitted she was terrified that her illness would interfere with her work.

"I was worried since the beginning of time that a glaring fault would remove me from the workforce. And usually it was my incoordination or getting stuck, too weak or sick, in my trailer – or any time, really. The vomiting or body issues were terrifying, [and the] baldness or rashes." 

Blair was terrified of being "found out" and said she had been living in "terror."

After her tumultuous ride with MS, Blair is proud to be an advocate for the disabled community and work with disabled allies.

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"I didn’t imagine I could ever make a difference by showing up as myself and being open about my experiences. But when others with mobility aids rallied around my presence on the red carpet with a cane and in the midst of an MS flare, I noticed. I felt empowered to share. . . . Now it’s a conscious choice to."

Blair said she finds joy in simply walking her dog or creatively moving furniture around her home in the middle of the night.

"I am so grateful for the peaceful hours now."

President Biden will sign an executive order Friday in the Rose Garden that will direct every agency of the federal government to incorporate "environmental justice" into its mission, the White House said. 

The White House has invited environmental justice leaders, climate advocates and community leaders to join the president at the signing ceremony today. There, Biden will reaffirm his administration's commitment to fighting climate change and correcting "disproportionate environmental harms," including those inflicted by a "legacy of racial discrimination including redlining."

"The executive order will direct agencies to address gaps in science and data to better understand and prevent the cumulative impacts of pollution on people’s health. It will create a new Office of Environmental Justice in the White House to coordinate all environmental justice efforts across the federal government. And it will require agencies to notify nearby communities in the event of a release of toxic substances from a federal facility," a White House official said. 

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According to the White House, the executive order will recognize that "racism is a fundamental driver of environmental injustice." It will direct federal agencies to consider and prevent disproportionate impacts of environmental and health harms on poor and minority communities. It also will require agencies to consult with historically excluded communities and "actively facilitate meaningful public participating and just treatment of all people in agency decision-making." 

The new White House Office of Environmental Justice created by Biden's action will be led by a Federal Chief Environmental Justice Officer, who will be tasked with coordinating "environmental justice" policy across the whole federal government.

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Additionally, the executive order changes language used in a Clinton-era environmental order that called on the government to address "disproportionately high and adverse" effects of their actions, dropping the word "high" to remove the "potential misunderstanding that agencies should only be considering large disproportionate effects." 

The White House contrasted Biden's planned action with policies favored by House Republicans and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., accusing "extreme MAGA Republicans" of being in the pocket of Big Oil. 

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Republicans have introduced H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, wide-ranging legislation that pushes back on Biden's climate agenda on everything from Biden's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline to restrictions on oil and gas development to proposed bans on gas stoves. The legislation, passed with bipartisan support in the House, would repeal taxes and regulations on oil and gas production and make it easier to develop fossil fuel energy. President Biden has said he would veto the bill. 

McCarthy has said the Biden administration "kneecapped American energy production" with "misguided policies" that increase costs on Americans. 

"Speaker McCarthy and his extreme caucus’ proposals, including H.R. 1, would be a climate and health disaster that President Biden won’t allow on his watch," the White House official said.