Best known for her role as Anya on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and, more recently, Dotti on WandaVision, Emma
Caulfield Ford, 49, announced in October 2022 that she’s been living with
MS for more than a decade but had kept her diagnosis secret from all but a few
close family and friends.
She decided to go public at last because, as Caulfield Ford
told Vanity Fair, “I’m so tired of not being honest.” Having a 6-year-old
daughter from whom she didn’t want to hide the disease also influenced her
decision, as did her concern that trying to hide it from her colleagues while
working in the heat of a Los Angeles summer could potentially worsen her
condition.
Describing her first symptoms of MS, which occurred in 2010,
Caulfield Ford said, “I woke up one morning, and the left side of my face felt
like there were a million ants crawling on it.” On the advice of her
acupuncturist, she had an MRI and was quickly diagnosed with MS.
Caulfield Ford’s father, Rodney Chukker, also had MS.
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