The Young and the Restless alum, Clementine Ford who is best known for playing Mackenzie Browning on the CBS daytime drama from 2009-2010 has taken to social media to reveal some devastating health news. In a detailed Instagram post the actress opens up:
“Why now?
When I was first diagnosed I was working on Y&R. I was terrified of people finding out and of losing my job (I hated that job, but that’s another story.) but I had to tell people, driven from deep within, as if sharing my news took some of the burden off me. I was lucky to work with some of the kindest, warmest, most caring people who took it in stride and opened their arms. And some who…didn’t. I didn’t tell producers or execs: see above.
I was torn. I felt like I needed to share what was happening to me as it was happening. That’s when I met someone high up in the MS fundraising world.
I told them what I felt I needed to do. They told me not to “waste” my diagnosis, to be strategic. I didn’t want that though. I just wanted to share, but not bad enough? I posed in a bikini for People magazine’s body issue, but never mentioned it. I mean, it wasn’t the “plan”. Like, what? If I waited I was going to get a cover somewhere and millions of dollars to find a cure?
Finally, I hit the limit of what I could hold.
I reached out, I discussed, I wrote, but then someone, someone actually famous, not just adjacent, went public with her MS and any interest in me petered.
I reached out to that person from way back who told me to “use [my] diagnosis”. Crickets.
Then, waiting to pick Eli up from school I thought, “what do I have to lose?” The answer? Nothing.
And here we are. #multiplesclerosis“
When I was first diagnosed I was working on Y&R. I was terrified of people finding out and of losing my job (I hated that job, but that’s another story.) but I had to tell people, driven from deep within, as if sharing my news took some of the burden off me. I was lucky to work with some of the kindest, warmest, most caring people who took it in stride and opened their arms. And some who…didn’t. I didn’t tell producers or execs: see above.
I was torn. I felt like I needed to share what was happening to me as it was happening. That’s when I met someone high up in the MS fundraising world.
I told them what I felt I needed to do. They told me not to “waste” my diagnosis, to be strategic. I didn’t want that though. I just wanted to share, but not bad enough? I posed in a bikini for People magazine’s body issue, but never mentioned it. I mean, it wasn’t the “plan”. Like, what? If I waited I was going to get a cover somewhere and millions of dollars to find a cure?
Finally, I hit the limit of what I could hold.
I reached out, I discussed, I wrote, but then someone, someone actually famous, not just adjacent, went public with her MS and any interest in me petered.
I reached out to that person from way back who told me to “use [my] diagnosis”. Crickets.
Then, waiting to pick Eli up from school I thought, “what do I have to lose?” The answer? Nothing.
And here we are. #multiplesclerosis“
Soap Opera News, of course, send our love to Ford.
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