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Emma Caulfield Fordis taking life with multiple sclerosis one day at a time.
Thus far, Caulfield Ford’s symptoms have been extremely mild, and she doesn’t take medication.
A series of recent MRIs showed no active lesions, a sign that her MS has not progressed.
Emma Caulfield Ford.Credit:Rodin Eckenroth/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
“I’m very, very fortunate,” Caulfield Ford, 50, told PEOPLE.
“But I’m also aware that, with MS, this could all change tomorrow.
That led her to get an MRI, which resulted in her diagnosis of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis.
Emma Caulfield Ford on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.20th Century Fox/Everett
Only her husband knew.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going to happen?
What am I going to do?'”
“So I told no one, not even my sister.
There are just too many reasons people don’t hire you as it is.
I didn’t needto give them any other excuse.”
But things came to a head when Caulfield Ford was working onWandaVisionin 2020 on an extremely hot August day.
“We were all in a sort of hot box,” she recalled.
“I started feeling dizzy and faint.
I was like, ‘My body can’t take this.’
“I was like, ‘I can’t be afraid anymore.
I have to tell the truth.
It’s not good for my health,'” she said.
Caulfield Ford publicly disclosed her diagnosisviaVanity Fairin October 2022, having already told colleagues and family.
“I’m like, ‘My back’s a little sore today.
Is that MS or is that because you turned 50?’
And I don’t know,” she said.
“I feel quite good, and that’s good news.”
