BRAVE TERI GARR'S SECRET MS HELL

QUIRKY Tootsie and Young Frankenstein star Teri Garr took a sad secret with her to the grave when she died Oct. 29 at 79 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis — for years, she was afraid to tell anyone she had the dreaded disease for fear that jobs would dry up!

The leggy blond dancer and actress with a superb sense of comic timing quietly began grappling with the debilitating disease in the late 1990s before publicly confirming her diagnosis in 2002.

During much of her career, Garr experienced mild symptoms of the chronic illness, including tingling body parts, tripping, fatigue and muscle weakness — but sources say what really ate at her was the gossip.