Jamie-Lynn Sigler Kept Her MS Diagnosis a Secret for 25 Years
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler emotionally discussed her recent guest role on “Grey’s Anatomy” as a doctor with multiple sclerosis (MS), a condition she has lived with for 25 years but previously kept secret to avoid losing work.
- Diagnosed at age 20 while working on “The Sopranos,” Sigler did not publicly reveal her MS diagnosis until 2017 during an interview with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
- On the Jan. 15 episode, she portrayed Dr. Laura Kaplan, a urologist with MS, who advises Dr. Richard Webber on prostate cancer treatment, aiming to authentically depict someone living powerfully with the disease.
- Sigler expressed that her first scene disclosing her MS diagnosis
