Acute pain, muscle cramps – just two symptoms of stiff person syndrome. Céline Dion made her illness public in 2022. Now she reports that she turned to medication.
Before the broadcast of a documentary about her life with a neurological disease, Canadian singer Céline Dion confessed in a television interview to the excessive use of sometimes dangerous medication. She started with “small things” and then turned to “very dangerous medication” to continue, the singer said in the interview broadcast on Sunday on the French channel TF1.
Dion, 56, announced in December 2022 that she had been diagnosed with stiff person syndrome. There is no cure for the autoimmune disease, which manifests itself in acute pain, restricted mobility and muscle cramps. The Canadian has not given a concert since 2020. On June 25, the documentary “I am: Céline Dion” will be released on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video.
Céline Dion: “You either keep going or you stop breathing and it’s over”
When the pain became too severe and she had to cancel concerts and lie, she began to take anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic drugs, Dion said in the television interview. When asked by journalist Anne-Claire Coudray whether she had also taken Valium, the singer replied: “Yes, among other things.”
It helped a little at first, Dion said. “But soon the dose had to be increased. And when you reach a dangerous level of medication and it no longer works, you have two options: you carry on or you stop breathing and it’s over.”
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In the interview, the singer called on people in similar situations to get help: “Don’t experience pain alone (…) Accept to talk about it, but also to get advice,” she said.
Despite her illness, Dion assured that she would sing on stage again one day. “I don’t know when. But I will be on stage again.” According to a media report, the Canadian will make her comeback at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris on July 26.
Source: Stern
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