Who are Christina Applegate's parents? Actress gets emotional as she announces her father's death on 'MeSsy' podcast

Actress Christina Applegate had an emotional moment while talking about her father, Robert Applegate, on her 'MeSsy' podcast she co-hosts with Jamie Lynn Sigler. JoAnna Garcia Swisher was the guest on the episode.

Sigler, who knew that Swisher would be talking about losing her parents, had already informed Applegate that this could trigger her emotions. The actress said:

“You are probably wondering why I am like crying right now. I am sorry, my dad just passed away a week ago.”

Christina Applegate went on:

“This is the first time I have really cried. I think kind of like I wasn't allowing myself to have that yet. Too busy with this too busy with that. We knew he was going to die. Is that an excuse for not feeling because you kind of know that someone is going to go and you have said your goodbyes?”

Christina Applegate’s parents, Nancy Priddy and Robert, separated in 1979. JoAnna Garcia Swisher reflected on her bond with her parents, explaining that while she wasn't sure what kind of relationship others had with their fathers, her father was a soulmate, and her mother had been her best friend.

She described losing them as a deep emotional shift, something that made her confront her sense of mortality. After their deaths, she often felt unprepared to face life without them to turn to for guidance.

As she navigated experiences like her oldest child’s puberty, she longed to ask her parents questions about her own experiences growing up and felt a strong sense of loss not having them there.

Christina Applegate’s father became an almost regular visitor after Sadie’s birth

Responding to Swisher, Christina Applegate shared that her parents parted ways when she was just a few months old, so she mostly didn’t grow up with her father. She had siblings and a kind stepmother through him.

However, he wasn’t involved in teaching her life lessons. Her mother, while loving, didn’t always provide the best parenting tools. Looking back, she felt that as parents, people either try to correct what their parents did wrong or carry forward what worked.

She believed that her generation was doing a better job overall. She reassured that even without all the answers, the right guidance often came naturally, from within, from the universe, or from a deeper sense of knowing. Christina Applegate said every child is different and there isn’t a single way to parent them all.

In 2013, the actress was on Who Do You Think You Are? where she said that after her daughter Sadie was born, her father started visiting more often, which she appreciated. She felt connected to him not just by family ties, but also because she saw parts of his personality in herself.

Meanwhile, in an interview with Today in 2017, Christina Applegate said she was in a good place and kept her life simple. She felt lucky to have the freedom to take a break from work and focus fully on being a mom.

She enjoyed spending all her time with her daughter, like making her meals, taking her to soccer, and volunteering several hours at her school. For her, that was her full-time role, and she genuinely loved her life at that time.

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