Selma Blair went into detail about comments from her doctor gave before her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
On “Meet the Press,” Blair said a doctor told her to get a boyfriend when she complained about being in pain.
“I just cried,” Blair said. “I had no capability to process. ‘What am I supposed to do with this information?’ I knew the pain was real. I thought it was. But I did start to convince myself, ‘You’re overly sensitive. There’s nothing wrong with you. Get it together, you lazy, lazy whatever.’”
The “Cruel Intentions” star said she went through “so much medical trauma.”
“And it was a gender bias, a lot of it, because there would be a boy in my grade that would go in for the exact same chronic headache and fever, and he is in surgery and an MRI within the week,” she said. “But they just said, ‘Oh, just dramatic,’ you know?”
The actor said when she was younger she had mostly older male doctors that “did not know the intricacies of a girl and that everything does not need to be blamed on menstruation.”
Blair was diagnosed with MS in 2018 and went into remission in 2021.
She also detailed the situation in her 2022 memoir, “Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up.”