Selma Blair Makes First Public Appearance Since Announcing Her Diagnosis Of Multiple Sclerosis With Cane

On Sunday, Selma Blair made her first public appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, months after announcing that she’d been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

After proudly walking the red carpet, the Legally Blonde actress took to Instagram to express the powerful experience which she said left her sobbing.

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In the picture which showed her proudly walking the red carpet with her manager Troy Nankin, and with the help of a cane, she wrote “there are moments that define us. This is one of those indelibly watermarked in my heart.”

“He knew I wanted to be able to stand proudly as the woman I have become and hope to be. To be a part of something so special when my body won’t move clearly yet,” she later added thanking Nankin for his support.

Blair then went onto honor the three people who helped customize her cane that she walked with, which featured a monogram and real pink diamond.

“I wanted a special cane for #vanityfair dinner. So… @lyon_hearted went out and found patent leather and @bic_owen and he stitched it on,” she wrote. “Hours of love put in. And then #tombachick made it especially magical. I burst into tears. These gifts to get me through.”

The Cruel Intentions star first revealed her MS diagnosis in October, adding that she had been having symptoms for years.

“I have #multiplesclerosis. I am in an exacerbation,” she wrote at the time. “By the grace of the lord, and will power and the understanding producers at Netflix, I have a job. A wonderful job. I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken gps. But we are doing it. And I laugh and I don’t know exactly what I will do precisely but I will do my best.”

“I am in the thick of it but I hope to give some hope to others. And even to myself. You can’t get help unless you ask. It can be overwhelming in the beginning. You want to sleep. You always want to sleep. So I don’t have answers. You see, I want to sleep. But I am a forthcoming person and I want my life to be full somehow. I want to play with my son again. I want to walk down the street and ride my horse. I have MS and I am ok. But if you see me, dropping crap all over the street, feel free to help me pick it up. It takes a whole day for me alone. Thank you and may we all know good days amongst the challenges,” she later added.

In January, Blair opened up about how she had been coping since being diagnosed.

“People write me asking how I do it. I do my best,” she wrote as the caption of the Instagram post. “But I choke with the pain of what I have lost and what I dare hope for and how challenging it is to walk around.”

“My smiles are genuine. This is ok. Life is an adventure with many shards of awakening,” she added. “I can’t sleep at night but daytime I have trouble staying awake.”

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Blair, who has continued to act despite her diagnosis, recently starred in The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story as the Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner. She is also set to star in the upcoming Netflix show Another Life.