The Path with Becky Quick: Joy in Visibility: Selma Blair’s MS Journey 4/27/26

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It took years for actress Selma Blair to find the role of a lifetime – and joy – in a shocking diagnosis. Discovering in her 40s that decades of health concerns and misunderstandings were the result of multiple sclerosis, Blair transformed her diagnosis into action. Around 1 million Americans are known to have the auto-immune disease MS, which can impact the brain and spinal cord, as well as the body’s ability to communicate. The “Legally Blonde” and “Cruel Intentions” actress is an advocate for fellow MS patients and she is speaking up for anyone traveling the difficult path of finding medical answers, care and possible treatment. In this episode of "The Path," Selma Blair takes CNBCs Becky Quick into her inspiring and empathetic journey of self-acceptance. Join us in advancing awareness and understanding of rare diseases. Visit CNBC.com/Cures to access clips, resources, or to sign up for our weekly newsletter. Follow Becky Quick on X: @BeckyQuick Please share your thoughts or rare disease story in the comments, and join us on The Path.

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0:00.0	This is strange. How come I can't hack life as well as everyone else?
0:06.0	You're straight there, look you're straight up here.
0:08.0	You probably had this 25 years, so there won't be plasticity for certain glitches, you know.
0:16.0	Information and awareness is where we have to start to personalize it for all of us.
0:24.2	It's okay.
0:24.6	Everybody has something.
0:29.3	Hi, I'm Becky Quick from CNBC.
0:32.3	Thank you for joining us on another step of the path.
0:35.5	If you've been following our podcast, you probably know
0:38.9	some of my story. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC. We are live
0:44.9	from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. I've spent the last 25 years on camera at CNBC covering
0:51.1	the highs and lows of American business.
0:59.4	And here we go, folks. It's Tuesday morning, and right now it looks like the futures are sharply high.
1:02.6	I'm also a mom to a child with a rare disease.
1:14.0	Our daughter, Kaylee, has Syngap 1. She's one of less than 2,000 people on the planet with Syngap. Syngap is a neurodevelopmental disorder that causes conditions like autism, seizures,
1:20.7	intellectual disability. People with Syngap often have difficulty communicating, and there is no cure. Learning to accept that diagnosis,
1:31.3	how to parent a child with a rare disease, and then how to share all of this to try and help others,
1:37.2	this is the best and most important thing that I've ever done. But it almost didn't happen.
1:42.7	I spent years not talking about this major part of my life.
1:47.6	Work was work and home and family were separate. I didn't think I could show those two parts of
1:53.2	myself in public, which is why I'm so struck by my guest in this podcast, Selma Blair.
2:00.0	She is doing it all right in front of us.
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