Céline Dion on her health issues and plans for a comeback: ‘I will sing again’ – CBC

Pop icon Céline Dion sits down with CBC’s The National to talk stiff-person syndrome, missing her fans

Jun 13, 2024

“When this whole thing started, if you put yourself in my shoes, I didn’t have a [diagnosis],” says pop icon Céline Dion.

It is spring in Las Vegas, and she’s speaking to CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault in an exclusive English Canadian interview. The topic that brought them together is, of course, what she is referring to now: the health issues that went from benign annoyances to debilitating attacks that caused her career to come to a screeching halt.

“I was trying to, what, survive through this. I was trying to be brave. Because, all my life, I wanted to be the best of me.”

The diagnosis Dion eventually received, and subsequently shared with the world in December 2022, was stiff-person syndrome (SPS) — a rare autoimmune disorder that inhibits the ability to move and, more importantly to Dion, use your voice.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/celine-dion-interview-1.7232696