Christina Applegate had breast cancer and then had her luscious bosoms cut off to ensure that it won’t happen again. So unfortunately, that meant less hugs.

Christina Applegate has been bravely outspoken about her battle with breast cancer. But, the Samantha Who? star reveals, she wasn’t always so forthcoming.

“I went back to work for about five weeks right after the second surgery,” Applegate tells Ellen DeGeneres on Friday’s show. She adds, “I didn’t tell anyone [about the diagnosis].”

She and DeGeneres recently bonded at the Stand Up to Cancer fund-raiser. (The event also featured fellow cancer sufferer Patrick Swayze and megastars like Jennifer Aniston.)

“[I'm feeling] so much better than the last time I saw you,” she tells the talk show host. “I was really … afraid of people hugging me. People are really huggy at those things.”

“I apologize,” DeGeneres says. “I hugged you.”

But these days, Applegate inists, “I’m good. I’ll grab ya.”

DeGeneres responds with a promise: “I’m going to hug you a bunch during this commercial break.”

Oh I bet you would hug her a bunch, Ellen. Though Ellen, you don’t seem to get that hugs don’t involve tongues, Melissa Etheridge music, and strap-ons. I could see how you’d get confused about that though.

And yeah, I’d be really excited to hug Christina Applegate now. It’s like going to ride the Batman rollercoaster, only instead of being on the coaster tracks, it’s being pulled by a fat guy on roller blades. Sure, the ride is the same in principle, but you kinda sucked all the joy out of it.