{"id":367548,"date":"2026-03-31T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:58:13","slug":"celine-dion-announces-comeback-shows-four-years-after-stiff-person-syndrome-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367548\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Dion announces comeback shows four years after Stiff Person Syndrome diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dion announced she had been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) in December 2022.<\/p>\n

In an emotional Instagram video, she told fans the condition had affected “every aspect of my daily life”. <\/p>\n

Affecting an estimated 8,000 people worldwide, SPS is a neurological disease caused by the signals from the nerves to the muscles not working properly. <\/p>\n

The condition causes muscle spasms and can affect mobility. For some, it can be debilitating. There is no known cure.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC in 2024,<\/a> Dion said she had first noticed the symptoms when her voice played up on tour.<\/p>\n

“It was just feeling a little strange, like a little spasm,” she said.<\/p>\n

“My voice was struggling, I was starting to push a little bit.”<\/p>\n

At the time, she felt it was impossible to take time off, and experimented with singing in a lower register to ease the stress on her vocal cords.<\/p>\n

“These shows were sold out for a year and a half, going around the globe.<\/p>\n

“And I’m going to say to people, ‘Excuse me about my spasm? Excuse me about my je ne sais quoi?'”<\/p>\n

However, the condition worsened, “sometimes causing difficulties when I walk and not allowing me to use my vocal cords to sing the way I’m used to,” she told NBC News. <\/p>\n

“It’s like somebody is strangling you. It’s like somebody is pushing your larynx [or] pharynx.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dion announced she had been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) in December 2022. In an emotional Instagram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-367548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}