KL Singer Céline Dion spoke on Sunday, throughout an interview with TF1, about her excesses with “very harmful drugs”, earlier than the published of a documentary evoking the sickness which retains her from the stage.
The 56-year-old Canadian has been preventing for years in opposition to stiff individual syndrome (PRS), an autoimmune illness, with no recognized remedy, which causes acute ache, issue shifting and spasms. She has not been in a position to give a live performance since 2020.
Amazon Prime Video will broadcast this documentary entitled “I’m: Céline Dion” from June 25.
When the ache turned too sturdy, for a motive she did not know till the tip of 2022, the Quebecer instructed the French tv channel, “I canceled loads of reveals, I discovered myself mendacity, taking treatment …Perhaps I am going to strive an anti-inflammatory, an antispasmodic or one thing.”
“I began with small issues, till I surrendered… with very harmful medicine, to proceed,” she defined throughout this interview recorded in Might in Las Vegas (United States).
To the journalist Anne-Claire Coudray who requested her if she had taken “Valium” (diazepam, a benzodiazepine), Céline Dion replied: “Sure, amongst others”.
“With out having a analysis. So, at the start, it helped a bit. However in a short time, the doses needed to enhance,” she continued. “And after we attain a harmful degree of treatment and it not works, we’ve got two decisions: we proceed or we cease respiratory and it’s over.”
“Do not expertise ache alone. (…) Agree to speak about it but in addition to seek the advice of. Do not endure alone,” urged the singer.
Céline Dion, whose identify was put ahead at the start of June by Le Canard chainé to be one of many artists scheduled to carry out on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Video games on July 26, reiterated her certainty of giving concert events once more A day. “I don’t know when. However I’m going to return again on stage,” she mentioned.
