United Kingdom, May 1 -- Selma Blair was "thrilled" to receive her MS diagnosis.

The 52-year-old actress found out that she was suffering from multiple sclerosis - a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord - in 2018 and insisted that the news only made her feel better about herself.

She told People: "[I was] thrilled. It's so funny. I felt like people thought it had to be some tragic thing, but I was like, 'No, you don't understand.

"I was feeling tragic inside before, and thinking this is just all psychosomatic and how can I change myself?"

The 'Legally Blonde' star - who has 13-year-old son Arthur with her former partner Jason Bleick - would wonder before her diagnosis what was "wrong" with her and how other people seeme...