Christina Applegate is reflecting on a painful tragedy.

During Tuesday’s episode of her “MeSsy” podcast , the 53-year-old actress and her co-host, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, spoke to their guest, Robert Iler, about his addiction battle, which sparked Applegate’s rare comments about her late boyfriend Lee Grivas, who died of a drug overdose in 2008.

“I kind of don’t understand sometimes like with Lee — which people know about. You could Google it, whatever,” the “Dead to Me” actress shared.

“My boyfriend who passed away, it was like I tried everything, right?” Applegate said. “And he still wanted to escape.”

“When he passed away, it was just like, ‘’F–k man,'” she added.

Grivas, a fisherman and aspiring photographer, was only 26 when he lost his battle with addiction. He was found dead of a

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