Christina Applegate opened up about the stages of grief she went through after her father’s death.
The 53-year-old actress candidly shared her raw emotions after losing her father, Robert Priddy, in late April.
“I lost my dad, but I had someone say, ‘Which part of the stages of grief are you on?’ And it was such a profound thing because I had to say to like one of my dearest friends, like, ‘No. I don’t do stages of grief. There is no set rules as to how I’m grieving this,'” she recalled on the May 6 episode of her and Jamie Lynn Sigler’s podcast, MeSsy.
The Dead to Me alum noted that her pattern of greiving was somewhat smiliar to accepting any “chronic illnesses or diseases” on go through.
“There’s no there are no set rules, and you have to forgive yourself for that,” Applegate mentioned. “Because when she said that, I was like, ‘Oh, f***. Maybe I should be doing, you know, anger, denial … till I get to the end of ellipsis and then whatever.”
The actress shared that she dont want to forget her dad by pushing her emotions as emotions of grief do come back after a period of time.
“I don’t wanna get to the point where it doesn’t hurt that he’s gone,” she added. “So, but anyway, I don’t even know what I’m talking about. But that’s what I was thinking as you were reading that.”
