‘The View’ Hosts Blast Megyn Kelly for Mocking Christina Applegate’s MS Misdiagnosis: A ‘Fungus’

The View cohosts are firing back at Megyn Kelly over her remarks about Christina Applegate‘s recent revelation that she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Applegate, 54, revealed on her MeSsy podcast with cohost Jamie Lynn Sigler that her doctor recently told her she does not have MS, despite being diagnosed with the disease in 2021 and receiving treatment for it ever since.

The Dead to Me actress questioned what to do next, saying she felt as if she were “back at square one” without a diagnosis and continuing to struggle with debilitating symptoms.

Kelly, 55, responded on The Megyn Kelly Show, criticizing Applegate for publicly discussing her health struggles.

“This is, like, the problem with celebrities like wanting to lean into their health problems,” Kelly said during the Tuesday, October 20, episode of her eponymous YouTube show.

Kelly went on to chastise Applegate’s decision to “now come out to tell us all she doesn’t actually have it, this has all been a wild goose chase. She’s crying now because I guess she no longer gets to be the face of this disease.”

On the Thursday, October 22, episode of The View, , Whoopi Goldberg was quick to defend Applegate, questioning Kelly’s reaction and pointing to the complexities of diagnosing MS.

“So, let me ask you, m’am, you think Christina wanted to have MS so she could have a good time? Are you crazy?” Goldberg, 70, said on the show, before panelist Sara Haines questioned, “Who wants to be the face of MS?”

“Talk about kicking someone when they’re down. She got a diagnosis and wanted to help other people,” Haines, 49, continued. “[She’s] now feeling the pain of not knowing what her identity is and, more importantly, what her diagnosis is. Megyn Kelly sold her soul for politics. Which one did a better job here? She literally has sunk so low in my book.”

Cohost Ana Navarro compared Kelly to a “fungus that thrives on oxygen that she gets by purposely creating outrage.”

Haines also called Kelly a “bully,” while Sunny Hostin called her an “ugly person.”

“The idea that you would come out and say something like this, Megyn, is unbelievable, that you don’t have the wherewithal to recognize that someone is saying, ‘This is what’s happening to me,'” Goldberg said at the end of the segment. “That’s how we get through our lives. We connect to each other. That’s what this is about, and I’m going to connect to you and say rethink your position on this, because you’re wrong.”

During the podcast, Applegate said she hasn’t “gotten better” despite years of treatment.

“I’ve gotten worse, in some ways. I’m back at square one. I don’t know what’s going on with me. That’s going to be an online investigation my doctors are going to get into to find out what’s been happening since 2021,” she said alongside cohost Sigler, who has had MS since 2001.

“Why did this happen? I have every symptom of someone with MS. Every single one. We both know that there are many things that mirror MS. Many different things.”