{"id":607490,"date":"2026-08-28T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607490\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:04:10","slug":"celine-dion-steps-out-in-paris-ahead-of-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607490\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Dion Steps Out in Paris Ahead of Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dion shared that she had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1357532\/celine-dion-diagnosed-with-rare-neurological-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">diagnosed with a &#8220;very rare&#8221; progressive neurological disorder<\/a> called stiff-person syndrome, surely the first time that most people had ever heard of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, I&#8217;ve always been an open book,&#8221; she said in an Instagram video. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t ready to say anything before, but I&#8217;m ready now. I&#8217;ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time, and it&#8217;s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I&#8217;ve been going through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She suffered muscle spasms that affected &#8220;every aspect&#8221; of her daily life, Dion explained, making it difficult to walk\u00a0sometimes and, saddest of all, it was going to be impossible for her to go back on tour as she&#8217;d been planning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m working hard with my sports medicine therapist every day to build back my strength and my ability to perform again,&#8221; Dion said. &#8220;But I have to admit, it&#8217;s been a struggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninds.nih.gov\/health-information\/disorders\/stiff-person-syndrome#:~:text=Stiff%2Dperson%20syndrome%20(SPS),can%20set%20off%20muscle%20spasms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>, symptoms include\u00a0stiff muscles in the torso, arms, and legs, and greater sensitivity to noise, touch, and emotional distress, all of which can\u00a0trigger muscle spasms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dion shared that she had been diagnosed with a &#8220;very rare&#8221; progressive neurological disorder called stiff-person syndrome, surely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}