cover story for Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/a>, the singer revealed that she actually began experiencing symptoms of her condition 17 years before she was diagnosed.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/17311df9-0f18-4285-b652-a8657a8e79df.jpg\" "\\"A")
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Robin Galiegue<\/p>\n
Before doctors discovered her illness, Dion said she would cancel a show citing things like a common cold when, in reality, she was experiencing much more complicated and debilitating challenges. In the 2024 documentary I Am: C\u00e9line Dion, she lets viewers into that pain: the strain in her voice, the SPS episode that left her paralyzed and terrified, the handfuls of pain killers and antidepressants she had to take to get through the day, and much more. There are no FDA-approved treatments for her condition, so in 2024 her foundation, Fondation C\u00e9line Dion, donated $2 million for research into autoimmune neurological disorders.<\/p>\n
The pop diva has been absent from the spotlight since then, but only because she\u2019s been regaining her strength, taking control over her body again, and gearing up for her return to the stage. The \u201cMy Heart Will Go On\u201d singer is embarking on a five-week residency in Paris starting in September, and then a three-week residency in May 2027. And she cannot wait.<\/p>\n
In preparation for the Paris shows, Dion does 90-minute Pilates sessions three times a week, and ballet classes on others. She is proud of herself. For her, not performing is not an option.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey paid for tickets. They bought my records. They gave me that luxury. So the least I can do is tell them that I\u2019m alive,\u201d Dion told Bazaar of her fans. \u201cIt\u2019s been so long, I would like to offer them something to show how I\u2019ve missed them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read It was in December 2022 when C\u00e9line Dion disclosed to fans that she had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,428,430165,430,134,308081,2387,257356,430164,366213,255902],"class_list":["post-860117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-20207a8f-2ae8-4e6b-a2cb-98c6bc42ae56","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-celine-dion-suffered-sps-symptoms-for-decades","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-celebrity-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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