The Sopranos actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler discusses why she didn’t reveal her multiple sclerosis diagnosis early on in her career—and when (and why) that changed.
In 2002, Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s career was ascending fast. At just 20 years old, she was rounding out her fourth season on The Sopranos—widely considered one of the best television shows of all time—and starring as Belle in a Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. Offstage and off-camera, however, Sigler was facing a serious medical situation: She had been diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis , the most common type of MS.
I had to try so hard to look like an able-bodied person that I could barely concentrate on the scene I was in. I was getting away with surface-level performances because I was just worried about physically holding myself up and trying to walk normally. I was also depressed and scared as a new mom. In 2018, you decided to step back from work. How did that feel? I don’t think I really grasped the gravity of that decision.
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