Christina Applegate
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NPR
4.7 • 990 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just a heads up, this episode does have some strong language. |
| 0:04.1 | How often do you think about death? |
| 0:06.7 | Every day? Because it's looming. |
| 0:10.1 | I bought my plots already, okay? I bought them. |
| 0:13.8 | And my friend and I are going to go take a picnic there. |
| 0:16.9 | It's really pretty where it is. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wild Card, the show where cards control the conversation. |
| 0:27.0 | Each week, my guest answers questions about their life, questions pulled from a deck of cards. |
| 0:32.8 | They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one back on me. |
| 0:36.8 | My guest this week is Christina Applegate. |
| 0:39.4 | I said to myself, take this all in. |
| 0:43.0 | Look around where you are at Radio City Music Hall. |
| 0:46.4 | Take every bit of it in. |
| 0:48.8 | Every person, every mezzanine, everything. |
| 0:53.1 | Like, take it all in. |
| 0:54.2 | I look nuts. |
| 0:56.6 | A few things became clear to me after reading Christina Applegate's new memoir. |
| 1:00.9 | She wants no one's pity. |
| 1:02.4 | She doesn't need anyone's approval, except maybe her daughters. |
| 1:05.7 | And she is a survivor. |
| 1:07.9 | On the outside, she was this mega star of TV and movies, |
| 1:12.9 | but you can only compartmentalize pain for so long, and her new memoir feels like liberation to me. An MS diagnosis has made life |
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