“House of the Dragon” creator George R.R. Martin has been struggling with depression.

The fantasy writer whose “A Song of Fire and Ice” series inspired HBO’s “Game of Thrones” saga told fans that while his blog has been updated recently, he personally hasn’t posted anything since February.

“This year has been … stressful, to say the least. So much has been happening, it’s been overwhelming,” the 77-year-old scribe confessed.

Martin said not everything that’s happened in recent months has been bad, while confessing his days have included dreams and nightmares.

“I have lost friends. Battled sadness and depression,” he lamented. “The worst may be yet to come.”

Martin, who turns 78 next month, told readers that aging hasn’t been fun, but has provided some good times. The New Jersey native figures that must be how life works.

“If you’ve read my stories, you know that,” he joked.

A bright spot for Martin was the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominating “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” for nine Emmy Awards. Chief among that “Game of Thrones” spinoff’s recognitions is a nod for outstanding drama series.

Martin hopes to attend the Sept. 14 awards ceremony in Los Angeles, but wrote “that depends on … well, on a lot of things.”

He expressed hope that next year’s nominations will include more actors from that series, which completed its first season on Feb. 22.

Martin assured fans that he will author future blog posts on his “Not a Blog” website. But he warned that those updates will likely be short and rushed despite his having helpers to pick up the slack.

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NEW YORK — Christina Applegate is on the mend and finally back at home after the Emmy winner’s nearly four-month hospitalization.

News broke in mid-April that the “Dead to Me” star, 54, who has battled multiple sclerosis since 2021, was “recently discharged” from a hospitalization that began in late March, sources with direct knowledge relayed to TMZ. Now, the “Anchorman” actress “is home and doing well,” said an insider.

The Daily News has reached out to a representative for Applegate.

Back in April, Applegate’s rep declined to comment “on whether she is in the hospital or what her medical treatments are” when asked by the News to confirm TMZ’s reporting.

“She’s had a long history of complicated medical conditions that she has been refreshingly open about, as evidenced in her memoir and on her podcast,” continued her rep at the time, referring to the March 2026 release of the former, “You With the Sad Eyes.”

Applegate and “Sopranos” alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler — who also battles the autoimmune disease MS, which affects communication between the brain and body — co-host the “MeSSY” podcast, on which the former has been candid about suffering “a real, (expletive)-it-all depression” in 2024.

Last year, Applegate said she was hospitalized “upwards of 30 times” over a grueling three-year period and, this March, revealed to NPR’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin” that she thinks about her mortality “every day” and had purchased a burial plot.

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LOS ANGELES — Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth’s most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas.

DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund are leading the Phoenix Species Project, the groups announced Tuesday. They call it the largest single fund in history dedicated exclusively to recovering critically endangered species.

DiCaprio has for years been developing the idea of a major concerted effort to help species whose habitats and future existence are threatened by climate change.

In 2021, he and Re:wild co-founder Wes Sechrest, a biologist who serves as the organization’s CEO, met with the Amazon-founding mega billionaire Bezos and his wife, former TV news reporter and host Lauren Sánchez Bezos. He serves as chair and she as vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund.

The meeting led to a series of conversations with local governments, environmental groups and Indigenous people on how best to reverse the decline of their most vulnerable species. Those conversations eventually led to the Phoenix Species Project.

Animals the initiative is seeking to sustain include:

■ The golden-crowned sifaka, a lemur from Madagascar

■ The Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, a lungless tree-dweller that lives only in a small canyon in North Carolina.

■ The Visayan warty pig, endemic to islands in the Philippines.

■ Mexico’s Cozumel harvest mouse, which lives only on an island off the Yucatán Peninsula.

■ The pink land iguana, found only on Wolf Volcano in the Galápagos Islands.

■ The Malayan pangolin, also known as the Sunda pangolin, native to Southeast Asia.

■ Tanzania's pancake tortoise, named for its flat, flexible shell.

■ The starry night harlequin toad, known and named for its black-and-white evening sky appearance, found only in the mountains of Colombia.

■ Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a monotreme, or mammal that lays eggs, from New Guinea named in honor of the 100-year-old naturalist and narrator-of-nature David Attenborough.

The project’s goals include giving long-term sustenance to successful but fleeting smaller efforts.

“We’ve protected the golden-crowned sifaka for years on a budget that would never match what this species deserves, but letting it go extinct was never an option,” Tiana Andriamanana, executive director of Association Fanamby, one of the groups getting a grant from the initiative, said in a statement. “This funding, this global platform and technical support change what is possible.”

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From combined wire services