Selma Blair has announced that she's in remission from multiple sclerosis after undergoing a stem cell transplant.
The 49-year-old actress was first diagnosed with MS back in 2018 and has been struggling to fight the painful and debilitating illness ever since - even undergoing chemotherapy in a bid to save her life.
According to Fox News, Blair announced the good news of her more positive health prospects on video chat with reporters during a Television Critics Association panel on Monday.
Promoting her upcoming documentary feature, Introducing Selma Blair, which is due to be released in cinemas on October 15, the Legally Blonde star said that she had undergone hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation.
Per Fox, Blair stated: "My prognosis is great. I'm in remission. It took about a year after stem cell for the inflammation and lesions to really go down, so I was reluctant to talk about it because I felt this need to be more healed."
She continued to state that she had had no new lesions forming, but added: "Cognitively, I'm very changed and that’s been the harder part."
Blair said that her diagnosis had been "isolating", but that she'd been able to cope with her loneliness thanks to the support of friends and family, including her 10-year-old son, Arthur.
Meanwhile, documentary director Rachel Fleit told the panel: "Selma was ready to tell this story in all of its honesty and rawness and truth.
"She had a few medical emergencies during filming. When she was like: 'Yes, show it all,' I was like: 'This is extraordinary.'"
The official website of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society defines MS as an immune-mediated disease, in which the body’s immune system attacks its myelin - the fatty substance that insulates the body's nerve fibers - in its central nervous system.
Symptoms include fatigue, difficulty walking, blurred vision, problems controlling the bladder, numbness or tingling, muscle stiffness and spasms, problems with balance and coordination, and issues with thinking, learning, and planning.
The disease's cause is unknown as of yet but is believed to be a combination of environmental and genetic factors.
