Celine Dion has ‘not given up’ her hopes of performing again – despite an ongoing health crisis that has forced her to scrap two and a half years of concert dates.
News of her medical woes first surfaced in October 2021, when she had to postpone months of Las Vegas shows because of ‘severe and persistent muscle spasms.’
As time went by and her issues went unresolved, she found herself canceling more and more performances, and eventually last December the 55-year-old tearfully revealed she had been diagnosed with the incurable Stiff-Person Syndrome.
She recently announced she has scuttled her tour dates through April 2024 – but a People source says she is ‘doing everything she can’ to be able to sing live again.
Another insider shared that her sons Rene-Charles, 22, and Nelson and Eddy, nine, ‘are her light right now’ as she fights to return to form.
It’s heartbreaking that she has had to cancel touring but she is suffering mobility and other issues from the disease disrupting her daily life,’ the source explained.
‘She is doing everything she can while working with doctors because she wants to perform. She has not given up at all. She is hoping to get all of the issues with this disease under control so she can sing again.’
Celine ‘loves her audiences’ and ‘singing is her life,’ the insider maintained, adding: ‘Seeing this happen is upsetting to her and to everyone around her.’
To hear another source tell it: ‘Her main focuses are always her sons and performing. She is the most selfless and considerate person. Celine just loves her boys so much. They are amazing. They give her all the support and love that she needs.’
Celine shares all three of her sons with her late husband Rene Angelil, who in a headline-grabbing detail was 26 years her senior.
They first met in Canada when she was a 12-year-old aspiring singer and he was already 38, and soon after he became her manager.
Rene died at 73 of a heart attack while suffering from terminal throat cancer in January 2016 – two days before Celine lost her brother Daniel to throat cancer.
In October 2021, it emerged that Celine had to cancel her Las Vegas shows for November, January and February 2022 on health grounds, according to Variety.
The official announcement of the postponement said that Celine has been coping with ‘severe and persistent muscle spasms.’
Her medical issues had advanced to the point that even going to rehearsal had evidently become unfeasible.
However at that point her world tour was still slated to restart in March 2022, beginning with a show at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado.
Then months passed and Celine’s health problems stretched on, leaving a string of bumped concert dates in their wake.
Finally in December the songstress emotionally announced she had been diagnosed with the rare neurological illness Stiff-Person Syndrome.
At present researchers suspect the ailment stems from the body’s immune system attacking an enzyme in its own nervous system
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