Christina Applegate reveals she donated hundreds of dollars to charity telethon while high on mushrooms

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Hollywood star Christina Applegate has revealed how she and a friend used her friend's dad's credit card to donate hundreds of dollars to a charity telethon after getting high on mushrooms.

The 'Dead To Me' actress revealed to Dax Shepard on his 'Armchair Expert' podcast how, at the age of 16, she tried mushrooms for "the first and last time."

Christina then told the host that she and her friend had used her friend's dad's credit card to make a large financial donation to Comic Relief, per The Mirror.

Christina Applegate admits to donating to charity while high on mushrooms

The 52-year-old actress—who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2021 while filming the third and final season of 'Dead to Me'—admitted that she and a companion gave hundreds of dollars while under the influence of mushrooms.

"My friend Mandy and I, we took some mushrooms, I think I was 16, at her house and we starting watching Comic Relief."

"This is how long ago it was - people don't even know what that is - Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal were hosting it," Christina confessed to the 'Armchair Expert' podcast host.

She added: "We were laughing so hard that we kept calling on the dial phone to use her dad's credit card to donate money and we did this all night long and we spent like hundreds of dollars and we got in really big trouble."

When Dax followed up with questions about whether Christina had tried using mushrooms to treat her multiple sclerosis, she said, "Drugs are not for me," adding that she had "that brain that (is) like take me out of right this moment, I'm gonna go cuckoo town."

Christina acknowledged, however, that she had attempted to smoke pot to cope with her discomfort before receiving an MS diagnosis in 2021. The actress declared that it was "not a good move" and that she "smoked it like you would at 15."

"I was alone in my room and I called (my mum), I said, 'What the hell did you give me?' And she said, 'How much did you have?' and I said, 'Like half of it', she goes, 'Oh my God'. This is why I haven't smoked pot since I was 15," Christina said.

Christina Applegate reveals she has 30 brain lesions 

Elsewhere in the podcast, Christina admitted that she is fighting multiple sclerosis and that she has more than 30 lesions on her brain.

Christina revealed to Dax: "I have 30 lesions on my brain. My biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot."

She called it "the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my entire life" and claimed it's giving her a great deal of suffering. "I hate it so much, and I'm so mad about it."

Fortunately, her vision has not yet been affected by the lesion. She has experienced further MS side effects, though, as her movement has been severely limited, per TMZ.

Christina said, "My hand starts to go weird and then I’ll get a seizure-y feeling sometimes in my brain."

People often ask Christina why she doesn't exercise, to which she responds with frustration that the pain is so great that "you can't overcome it."