Katey Sagal was Christina Applegate’s ‘safe space’ for her on ‘Married… with Children’ set. Applegate said Sagal meant more to her than she knew. Sagal said she was ‘newly sober’ when the sitcom debuted in 1987, and “was truly doing the fake it till you make it” method. “I always knew if I came to you with something or I cried that you would comfort me, that I’d feel safe”, Sagal told Applegate on the March 4 episode of her ‘MeSsy’ podcast, which she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler. ‘You were a safe space for me’, the 53-year-old actress gushed. � “What made you so comforting to me is that you had lived. A lot of life and a lot of scarring and things had taken place and now you were on that side of strength, and I needed that.”