Christina Applegate says she's nervous about first awards show since MS diagnosis

Christina Applegate said this week that she’s "nervous" about attending her first awards show since 2019 and since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021. 

"So this Sunday will be the first awards show I have been to since 2019. And the first since MS. NERVOUS! But grateful to the @CriticsChoice for including me," Applegate tweeted on Thursday. 

She is nominated for her role as Jen Harding in "Dead to Me." 

The actress is also animated for best actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in February. 

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"Thank you @SAGawards for this nomination today!" she wrote Wednesday. "I have been a proud member of this union since 1975. I’ve had an incredibly hard year, and today this made me smile. Much love to my peers and to my sweet Jean Smart and the other incredible ladies I walk beside." 

This is her third nomination for "Dead to Me" at the Critics Choice Awards. 

Last November, Applegate received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Before the ceremony, she had teased that she was trying to choose between several "fancy" walking sticks to use at the ceremony, which she said was her first major event since her diagnosis. 

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"Walking sticks are now part of my new normal," Applegate wrote at the time. She accepted her star in bare feet, tweeting, "For some with MS the feeling of shoes may hurt or make us feel off balance. So today I was me. Barefoot."

Applegate was diagnosed in the midst of shooting the final season of "Dead to Me," but after a five-month break in which she got treatment, she returned and finished the show. 

She said the cast and crew were extremely supportive. 

"If I called them in the morning and was like, ‘Guys, I can’t get down the stairs,’ they were like, ‘OK! We won’t do today. We’ll do other stuff,'" Applegate told Kelly Clarkson last year. "Netflix even let us take a break for a couple of months so that I could mourn and find treatment." 

The "Bad Moms" actress also battled breast cancer in 2008 and had a double mastectomy, and had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. 

Indiana University student stabbed on bus because she is Asian: Court docs

An 18-year-old Indiana University student was hospitalized after a woman stabbed her multiple times on a bus near the university’s campus, in an attack authorities are calling racially motivated. 

According to Bloomington police, first responders were dispatched to a bus stop on W. 4th Street and the B-Line Trail around 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday on reports of an assault with injuries.

The 18-year-old victim, an Asian student at Indiana University, told investigators she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a Bloomington Transit bus when another passenger, 54-year-old Billie Davis, began striking her in the head, Bloomington police said in a release.

Davis stabbed the victim multiple times in the head with a folding knife, reportedly saying it "would be one less person to blow up our country." 

The 56-year-old woman and the female student didn’t interact prior to the vicious attack, bus surveillance footage shows. 

A witness who also was riding the bus followed the woman’s attacker and contacted police, who later arrested Davis. 

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Court documents show Davis admitted to targeting the teen because of her race, according to WNDU-TV. Davis has been charged with attempted murder, a level 1 felony, as well as aggravated battery.

She is being held in the Monroe County Jail on a $1,000 cash bond.

The victim was treated at a hospital for multiple stab wounds. Her name was not released.

"This week, Bloomington was sadly reminded that anti-Asian hate is real and can have painful impacts on individuals and our community," Indiana University Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs James Wimbush said in a statement. "No one should face harassment or violence due to their background, ethnicity or heritage. Instead, the Bloomington and IU communities are stronger because of the vast diversity of identities and perspectives that make up our campus and community culture."

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Bloomington is in southern Indiana. Mayor John Hamilton called behavior like the bus attack "not acceptable" and said it will be "dealt with accordingly."

"We know when a racially motivated incident like this resonates throughout the community, it can leave us feeling less safe," Hamilton said in a statement Saturday. "We stand with our Asian community and all who feel threatened by this event."

In recent years, Asian Americans have increasingly been the target of racially motivated harassment and assaults, especially after the start of the coronavirus pandemic. A report from Stop AAPI Hate released in 2021 showed that 9,000 instances of anti-Asian hate crimes had been reported since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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