“I’m good. I’m doing really well. I really am in a fortunate space.”
It means a little more when Selma Blair is the one saying these words. The veteran actress, after all, has been through an epic health journey in the past five years. In 2018, she revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. Three years later, after undergoing an extensive stem-cell transplantation procedure and chemotherapy, Blair announced that her MS was in remission. Today, she talks openly about having Miege syndrome—which involves involuntary spasms of the tongue, jaw and pharynx and face. It affects the way she speaks, and yet her scrappy and self-deprecating attitude shines through.
