Selma Blair, who was identified with a number of sclerosis in 2018, is opening about her irritating expertise with gender bias within the well being care system.

While lately showing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the actor spoke a few staggering second in her MS journey when a physician dismissed her “unbearable” ache and discomfort by suggesting that she discover a boyfriend.

“I just cried,” Blair, 51, recalled of her response to the insensitive remark. “I had no capability to process. ‘What am I supposed to do with this information?’ I knew the pain was real. I thought it was. But I did start to convince myself, ‘You’re overly sensitive. There’s nothing wrong with you. Get it together, you lazy, lazy whatever.’”

The “Cruel Intentions” actor shared that she suffered “so much medical trauma” early on attributable to unfair therapy from docs throughout her childhood.

“It was a gender bias, a lot of it, because there would be a boy in my grade that would go in for the exact same chronic headache and fever, and he is in surgery and an MRI within the week,” she defined.

The “Hell Boy” star added: “I was never given an MRI even though I always had headaches and fevers and balance [problems]. But they just said, ‘Oh, just dramatic.’”

After having her signs shut down by docs for years, she recalled being “relieved” when she was lastly identified with MS.

“I was relieved I finally had something that could be understood and treated,” she advised the present’s moderator, Kristen Welker.

As certainly one of Hollywood’s greatest advocates for continual illness and incapacity rights, Blair went on supply recommendation to medical professionals who’re treating sufferers with continual signs.

“I really wish they would listen,” she mentioned after declaring that “nothing was taken seriously.”

The actor, who has been in remission since 2021, added: “I want doctors to listen, keep things in mind. And why so afraid of an MRI on a woman?”

Back in 2019, Blair echoed comparable frustrations over her experiences with dismissive docs whereas showing on “Good Morning America.”

“I was really struggling with, ‘How am I gonna get by in life?’” she mentioned on the time. “And not [being] taken seriously by doctors, just, ‘Single mother, you’re exhausted, financial burden, blah, blah, blah.’”