Emma Caulfield Ford, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and WandaVision actress, reveals she has multiple sclerosis

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Emma Caulfield has revealed that she has multiple sclerosis and that she has been living with the disease since 2010.

I woke up one morning and the left side of my face felt like there were a million ants crawling on it, she recalled in an interview with Vanity Fair.

She was diagnosed with MS soon after.

It was like an out-of-body experience, she told the publication. Im like, No, thats not possible. Im like, What are you talking about? [The doctor] was very matter of fact about it. It was literally a kind of nightmare.

Caulfield said she initially hid her condition from people she worked with because she didnt want to give anyone the opportunity to not hire me.

There are already plenty of reasons to not hire people, reasons most actors dont even know. You look like my ex-girlfriend Youre too short. Youre too tall. You look mean. You look too nice. You dont have the right color eyes. I knew in my bones that if you talk about this, youre just going to stop working. Thats it, she said.