Celine Dion Future Unknown After Singer Announces Debilitating Disease
Celine Dion has been a Las Vegas Strip staple fiber for nearly 2 decades, but her years headlining a gambling casino saleroom could be numbered. That’s after the 54-year-old superstar announced a debilitating medical condition.
Dion, the best-selling Canadian creative person of all-time, and 1 of music’s to the highest degree successful singers ever so with more than 200 million albums sold worldwide, revealed Thursday morning time that she’s been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS).
“I’ve been dealing with problems with my wellness for a long time, and it’s been really hard for me to human face these challenges and to speak nearly everything that I’ve been sledding through,” an emotional Dion said inward an Instagram video.
I’ve been diagnosed with a real uncommon neurological upset called Stiff Person Syndrome. While we’re still learning well-nigh this rare condition, we at present live this is what has been causing all of the muscular tissue spasms that I’ve been having,” Dion said nigh her recent circuit date stamp cancellations and postponements.
Dion explained that the spasms wallop every voice of her daily life, and at times, suppress her vocal cords and ability to sing.
“It hurts me to evidence you that i won’t live ready to re-start my circuit inward Europe inwards February,” Dion concluded patch nearing tears.
Show Might Not Go On
According to Johns Johns Hopkins Medicine, SPS affects only near unity or two inward a million people. The disease causes continuous tense musculus stiffness and painful spasms that tin be triggered past a variety of things, including sudden movement, cold-blooded temperatures, and unexpected loud noises.
SPS is treated with anti-anxiety drugs, muscular tissue relaxants, anguish relievers, and anti-convulsant drugs. But the shape is incurable.
“I feature a outstanding team up of doctors workings alongside me to assist me capture better,” Dion continued. “I’m workings with my sports medical specialty therapist every mean solar day to build rearwards my strength and my ability to perform again.”
For now, however, Dion has pushed dorsum the resumption of her European tour until March, and eight antecedently scheduled performances have been canceled.
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"It hurts me to narrate you that I won't live ready to restart my tour in Europe inward February.” – Celine
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— Celine Dion (@celinedion) December 8, 2022
In January, Dion proclaimed the cancellation of her Second Earl of Guilford American tour because of musculus spasms that prevented her from rehearsing the show.
That announcement followed Dion before canning her abidance engagement at Resorts World Las Vegas. Carrie Underwood replaced Dion at the Strip’s newest casino.
End of an Era?
Dion has sworn to coming back to the stage, the vocaliser expression in her video message that “Singing is all I know.” But her SPS diagnosing could signify that her abidance days performing multiple shows a week inward Las Vegas are finished.
Dion has already cemented her position inwards Las Vegas history, as no other vocaliser has generated anyplace come together to the amount of fine revenue she has generated during her magisterial career.
Dion’s 2003 through and through 2007 residency, titled “A New Day…” at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum ran for 717 shows and sold more than $385 one thousand thousand worth of tickets. Her next residency, her self-titled present “Celine,” which also ran at the Colosseum from 2011 through and through 2019, grossed $296 million during its 427-show run.