Little by little he reveals the effects of this illness that prevents him from returning to the stage. Celine Dion recounts the physical pain caused by her stiff person syndrome, a rare neurological disease, in an interview with NBC, the first excerpt of which was published this Friday, June 7.
“It’s like someone is strangling you, like someone is pressing on your larynx,” he explains on American television, pressing his throat.
These “spasms” prevent her from controlling her voice and have forced her to cancel numerous concerts in recent years. It then spread to other parts of her body.
“It can also be in the abdominals, in the spine, in the ribs,” explains the Canadian singer, who reveals that she has had “broken ribs” due to the force of those spasms.
A documentary to tell their struggle
These pains can occur at any time of the day. “I feel like if I point my feet, they’ll stay in that position. Or if I’m cooking, because I love to cook, my fingers, my hands, they’ll get in position… It’s a cramp, but it’s like a position where you can’t unlock them,” he says.
Celine Dion had already told last May, in an interview with Vogue, how she discovered that she suffered from this disease a few years ago, more than ten years after experiencing the first symptoms.
“Very soon I had difficulty controlling my voice (…) I began to have difficulty walking, I had to hold on to objects,” the superstar then confesses.
in the documentary I am: Celine Dionwhich will air on Prime Video starting June 25, the singer of Why do you still love me? He will tell his daily fight against this disease.
Source: BFM TV
