CHRISTINA APPLEGATE - APPLEGATE DEVASTATED BY SMOKING SLIP UP

APPLEGATE DEVASTATED BY SMOKING SLIP UP

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE was devastated when photographers caught her smoking just months after she won her battle with cancer, because it was a "rare slip up".
Applegate quit the habit after she was diagnosed with the disease last year (08). She underwent a double mastectomy and was given the all-clear last August (08).
Fans were shocked to discover she was smoking again, after she was snapped enjoying a sneaky cigarette earlier this month (Apr09).
But the actress insists it was a minor setback in her battle to quit her nicotine habit after a traumatic past year, during which her ex-boyfriend Lee Grivas died of a drug overdose.
She tells People magazine, "It's been very painful because I feel it was discounting all the work that I've done. The day I found out I had cancer I quit everything that was bad for me that I was putting in my body.
"Over the last year, with everything that's happened, there have been a couple of times that I've slipped up. That was one of those rare occasions - and of course they got the picture."