Selma Blair has gotten fully acquainted with the highs and lows of life with a chronic illness since receiving her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2018.
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In 2019, the actress’s symptoms from her unique form of the degenerative neurological disease had reached a breaking point, often leaving her unable to move or talk. She had a risky two-month hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the hopes of reactivating her immune system (HSCT)
How is Selma Blair doing with her MS?
Blair stated in an interview that she is doing better day by day. “I’m working on it. Little by little, I can do all these things,” she says, adding that she and Arthur now play football together, albeit a slightly one-sided version. “I just get pelted with balls,” she says. “I mean, I can’t say I could go running, but I can jog down to the mailbox if I were to practice a few times.”
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Has Selma Blair recovered from MS?
Blair is noticing “huge improvements” in her mobility and daily life a little more than a year after the seven-step operation, which included an intense course of chemotherapy under the care of Dr Richard K. Burt at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a long emotional and physical rehabilitation.
Her MS is in remission (there is no sign of disease progression at the moment), but she is quick to point out that she is not cured, as there is no treatment for MS.


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