Selma Blair reveals her close friendship with singer Pink: 'My inspiration for joy every day, I love you so much!'
Selma Blair says Pink is her 'inspiration for joy every day'.
The 46-year-old actress took to Instagram on Monday to share a picture of herself and the So What hitmaker after they spent Memorial Day together, and Selma praised the singer for 'loving life to the fullest'.
'This picture was taken after the most dramatic stop drop and roll maneuver performed by yours truly,' Blair wrote in her post.
Besties: Selma Blair says Pink is her 'inspiration for joy every day'. The 46-year-old actress took to Instagram on Monday to share a picture of herself and the So What hitmaker after they spent Memorial Day together
'I was so startled to see @pink come up behind me ( at her house , mind you) that my overactive startle reflex kicked in and I went flying.
'This happens to me. My kid thinks it is hysterical. My beloved friend... we had a good laugh too. My favorite. Fall, tackle, hug, laugh, repeat. Take a picture. #heaven.
'My inspiration for joy every day @pink I love you so much. #nobodydoesitbetter thank you for loving life to the fullest. #love love #pink #selma #keepsmegoing #hurts2bhuman we cried best drop and roll around partner ever.
A true friend: Pink hugging her son Arthur over the weekend in LA
'I love you sister soul.'
The Cruel Intentions star also shared a picture of her seven-year-old son Arthur - whom she has with her ex-partner Jason Bleick - with Pink, as she praised them both for making her feel 'full of love and pride'.
She wrote: 'These two. Make me feel full of love and pride. a photo of them together again... priceless. #pink #arthursaintbleick #memorialdayweekend . I love .#beautifulsouls.'
More pals: Here she posed with another friend as well as her dog Pippa
Meanwhile, Selma recently said she wants to be a 'useful' mother to her son for as long as he needs her, despite her recent MS diagnosis.
She said: '[Arthur] is the reason for everything. My dream is that I get to be a useful mom, as long as this kid wants me.'
And she then jokingly added: 'Which is about one more year.'
She opened up about her MS diagnosis in a lengthy profile in Vanity Fair, where she revealed she had been battling puzzling symptoms for five years.
Not kind: She also said someone smashed her car window and it has happened many times before
A friend: The beauty with Nancy Davis who runs Race To Erase MS; seen on May 10
In October, she announced on Instagram that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, telling VF that she had no idea her announcement would become news.
'It wasn’t about announcing a dramatic diagnosis. I had no idea, for some reason, that news outlets would pick it up or anything,' the actress said.
'When they did, I was kind of uncomfortable. Then I was worried, thinking, "Will anyone hire me?"'
She then joked that the announcement led her to, 'reconnect with so many people who thought I might drop dead soon'.
Selma also spoke about her ongoing battle with the chronic disease in an interview with GMA anchor Robin Roberts.
All here: With (L-R) Arthur Saint Bleick, Robin Roberts and Sarah Michelle Gellar
The star recalled the moment that she was told she had MS, after spending years living 'in pain' with an undiagnosed condition that doctors simply passed off as the result of her being an 'exhausted single mother'.
'I cried, I had tears,' she said of her reaction to the diagnosis. 'They weren't tears of panic. They were tears of knowing I now had to give in to a body that had loss of control.
'And there was some relief in that. Cause ever since my son was born, I was in a MS flare-up and didn't know, and I was giving it everything to seem normal.'
That struggle to seem normal, Selma admitted, involved self-medicating whenever she was not around her son Arthur, now seven, as well as drinking heavily in order to cope with the pain and exhaustion that she was struggling to combat.
Being very honest: Some days are very hard for the actress, like this one where she wanted to stay in bed all day
'I was self-medicating when [Arthur] wasn't with me,' she said. 'I was drinking, I was in pain.
'I wasn't always drinking, but there were times when I couldn't take it. And I was really struggling with how am I going to get by in life.'
Selma's years-long struggle to deal with the symptoms of what was then an undiagnosed chronic illness came after she tried to seek help from multiple doctors, who refused to 'take her seriously'.
The actress, who first revealed in October that she had been diagnosed with MS, explained that some of the medical experts she saw simply passed off her symptoms as being the result of her being 'exhausted' and a 'single mother', with others even blaming her 'hormones' for her physical struggles.
It reached a point when Selma was so tired, she was unable to stay awake in between dropping her son, whose father is her ex Jason Bleick, off at school and going to work.
'I got to the point where I said, "I need to go to work and I have to stay awake." I would drop my son off at school a mile away, and before I got home I would have to pull over and take a nap,' she revealed.
'And I was ashamed, and I was doing the best I could. And I was a great mother, but it was killing me.'
When it came to telling her son about her diagnosis, which she did shortly after the MRI that confirmed it, Selma said it wasn't a difficult conversation - and revealed that the pair had actually already been joking about her symptoms.
'[It wasn't difficult] at all,' she recalled. 'I always want him to feel safe and never responsible for me.
'But he had already seen that I was falling and doing things, and I was always laughing, and he would imitate me and I'd be like, "That's fine but don't do that out of the house, people will think you're a jerk!"'
Her son's only fear, Selma recalled, was that his mother's disease might be killing her.
