Celine Dion opened up about her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis in a new interview excerpt with Today’s Hoda Kotb
“What did this disease take away from you?” Hoda Kotb asked the singer in a new Today preview of their upcoming sit-down interview on Tuesday, June 11. Dion, 56, replied, “It didn’t take anything away from me. I’m going to go back on stage, even if I have to crawl. Even if I have to talk with my hands, I will. I will.”
“I could not do this anymore,” Dion said to Kotb, 59, in the excerpt. “What do you want me to say? … We did not know what was going on.” In another teaser from the pair’s talk, Dion shocked Kotb with the revelation that her stiff-person syndrome spasms caused a painful injury. “I had broken ribs at one point, because sometimes when it’s very severe, it can break some ribs as well,” she stated.
“I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time and it’s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I’ve been going through,” she shared in an Instagram video at the time, adding that the disease “affects one in a million people” and that it “affect every aspect of daily life.”
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