Christina Applegate SOUNDS OFF On Critics, Shares Snarky DM

Christina Applegate isn't here for any haters, and she is telling them so!

The "Dead To Me" star has been extremely transparent in sharing the struggles she faces with Multiple Sclerosis following her 2021 diagnosis. Part of Applegate's transparency seemingly entails calling out her critics.

The "...Married With Children" alumna has publicly discussed how her sense of humor has helped her, but it was no laughing matter on her Twitter feed on Tuesday.

Applegate posted a screenshot of a DM and shared details surrounding what happened after engaging with a critical commentator.

The Blast has covered multiple elements of Applegate's struggles following her MS diagnosis. According to one of our pieces of coverage, she discussed a go-to coping mechanism with Kelly Clarkson during a December appearance on "The Kelly Clarkson Show."

"Are you someone who is naturally optimistic when you're sick or when you're fighting something, because I go to humor and very dark humor. I don't know how you deal with things," Clarkson asked.

"Yeah, my humor shield keeps me okay," Applegate answered. "Um, but of course down on the insides you feel the things, and I do it to kind of deflect and make people not to be scared around me," she added. "I want them to feel comfortable that we can laugh about it," Applegate said, referring to her use of a cane to help her walk. "I have a song that I wrote called, 'Disaby baby, hurry down the chimney tonight. I can't cause my wheelchair won't fit down it."

Despite Applegate's ability to rely on her sense of humor, she was frank with Clarkson as she discussed her feelings.

"To be honest, being diagnosed with MS last year and what had happened with my body, to my mind, to my spirit, to my everything... of course I didn't want to be around anyone or talk about it. But, I had to go through work. I wasn't forced to work," she clarified, "but I made sure we finished [Dead To Me]."

Applegate refuses to allow naysayers to have negative effects on her spirit, and she proved it when calling out a critic on Twitter by exposing their DM.

"Soooo I made the uncomfortable decision to look at some comments on an article from people mag about me and my kids at the CCA," she began her tweet. Applegate is referring to her recent public appearance at the Critics Choice Awards; her attendance at the event marks her first public appearance since her diagnosis.

"Of course I told her it wasn't nice," Applegate's tweet continued, "This was her reply. What is wrong with people. By the way, I laughed," she assured her followers.

The critic's double-text DM reads, "Ms didn't make you look that way a plastic surgeon did. And you are a scammer and are notChris tina Applegate," their first message read.

"And a bad plastic surgeon at that," their second DM added.

Many of Applegate's followers rushed to her defense in the thread's responses.

Comedian Skyler Stone responded, "Well, actually, now that you bring it up, a lot is wrong with people, and that's exactly why they say that to you. It doesn't even have anything to do with you. They may as well be talking to themself [sic] as the self loathing in that person is beyond obvious. You keep being bad*ss CA!"

"trash humans gonna be trash," Alyssa Mastromonaco tweeted.

"I almost feel sorry for this person," one of Applegate's followers tweeted, "Having to publicly criticize someone on their looks when you've done nothing to them," they tweeted before expressing their love for "Dead To Me." The Netflix series, which also stars Linda Cardellini, recently wrapped after three seasons.

"You looked amazing," another follower wrote, "people don't seem to understand chronic illnesses and how it affects us, I don't have MS, but I have lupis, POTS, and APS. I've been called out for my weight and looks many times. You just have to try and ignore them!"

"Good thing you're actually perfect and beautiful and a warrior goddess," another fan tweeted, along with a gif of Sarah Paulson.

Applegate has also shared her experience with shooting "Dead To Me" after her diagnosis.

"I pushed as hard as I could through that, and it was really, really difficult, and I went to sleep for a few months. Then all of a sudden I had to come out again and be this person, you know, people had seen this person for almost the last 40 years, and I'm different now," she said. "I don't want to be the fish in the fish tank, but you know, I'm gonna do my best just to get through it." (per The Blast)