\"I had tears. They weren't tears of panic,\" Blair said about the moment she was diagnosed. \"They were tears of knowing I now had to give in to a body that had loss of control, and there was some relief in that.\"
How she told her son about the disease
Blair also opened up about the moment she told her son about her disease.
\"I always want him to feel safe, never responsible for me,\" she said. \"But he had already seen that I was falling and doing things.\"
She adds that she tried to keep a smile about it and was \"always laughing,\" and that her young son would imitate her dropping things on occasion.
\"So I did have to tell him after the MRI. I said, 'I have something called multiple sclerosis,'\" she recalled. \"And he almost cried and said, 'Will it kill you?'\"
\"And I said, 'No. I mean, we never know what kills us, Arthur. But this is not the doctor telling me I'm dying,'\" she said. \"And he was like, 'Oh, OK,' and that was it.\"
How she stays positive and inspired
During her most difficult days, Blair said she allows herself to get in bed and not feel guilty about it.
\"I get in bed and I don't move,\" she said. \"You just have to. You can't do it all.\"
\"It's fine to feel really crappy and say, 'I gotta,'\" Blair said. \"And my son gets it and now I've learned not to feel guilty.\"
Blair said she is also inspired by the people around her, including her son and \"three of the dearest people\" who are always by her side.
\"I never thought I'd have such riches and that I'd have to be so vulnerable and accepted,\" she said.
\"It's keeping me alive, no pressure to them,\" she quipped. \"So rude of me, but the truth is they have been.\"
Blair added that doctors have told her that her \"prognosis is strangely amazing.\"
\"I'm very symptomatic. I have an aggressive MS,\" she said. \"But the doctor I saw ... he said within a year I could have -- at the time he said 90 percent of my abilities back.\"
Blair admitted that she was \"a little scared of talking\" during her flare-up, but that her neurologist encouraged her to speak out and \"bring a lot of awareness\" to the disease.
\"No one has the energy to talk when they're in ... flare-up,\" the actress said, adding, \"But I do 'cause I love a camera.\"
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