Actor and advocate Selma Blair tells Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker that she lives “in pain every day” after her multiple sclerosis went into remission and opens up about her treatment.

Actor Selma Blair sits down for a candid interview with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie and opens up about starting to drink heavily from a young age. Blair, who recently released a memoir called “Mean Baby,” also discusses the physical pain she experienced since childhood that would become a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2018.

Selma Blair was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis a few years back. In this powerful interview, she speaks about her journey with MS. She talks about the early signs of Multiple Sclerosis, the challenges she faced, and how she started building a community to create awareness for this disease. It is so important to pick up the early signs of this disease. Do you know if you have MS? If so, how do you know?

While much of the world continues to shelter in place amid the coronavirus pandemic, Selma Blair is reflecting on another time where she was forced to stay distanced. The actress needed to isolate in the summer of 2019, when she was going through treatments amid her battle with multiple sclerosis and was immunocompromised. “When I was in isolation this summer, I imagined peace. In all ways. A reckoning. An understanding. Of time alone. Of the help I was asking for. For my son. I could not be with him. I held this #frownyfacedolls of my son. I acknowledged it’s normal to not always have a smile. But I learned to Smile. For real,” she wrote alongside a throwback photo of her time in the hospital.