Singer Celine Dion (Charlemagne, 54) announced this Thursday, December 8 through her social media profiles that she was suffering from a neurological condition that forced her to cancel her 2023 European tour. from which the Canadian artist suffers, as it turned out, is known as rigid person syndrome, a neurological disorder classified as a rare disease It affects the central nervous system and causes muscle spasms. This disease, which is autoimmune, affects one in a million people and is incurable. “The spasms affect all aspects of my life, sometimes they even make it difficult for me to walk and they also don’t allow me to use my vocal cords as before”, admits Dion, visibly moved. in the video visible on his Instagram accountprofile in which he has 5.2 million followers.

“A great medical team is working alongside me to help me get better, and my kids also give me hope and support,” Dion shared in the same tearful video. “All I know how to do, what I have done in my life and what I love the most is sing,” he adds. Since 2019, the artist has not been on stage. The interpreter suspended his tour Courageous Visit in 2020 due to the pandemic and last January he had to suspend part of the tour which was planned for this year. Now, and after the announcement of his illness, Dion has once again postponed the dates of his concerts until 2024.

The announcement of the artist through his social networks was also accompanied by the official press release of the Nyon Paleo Festival (Switzerland), an organization which confirmed via his website that the artist will not perform on July 17, As expected. The organizers of the Paléo Festival expressed in the press release their wishes for a speedy recovery for the singer of my heart Will Go On and indicate that they will refund the amount of all tickets already purchased.

Despite all the health setbacks that Celine Dion has suffered in recent years, in 2020 the singer was about to make the big leap to the big screen and her debut with her first acting role in the cinema at the age of 52. . For her, after more than three decades of musical career, 200 million albums sold worldwide and with many titles at the top of the charts, it was a challenge to participate in the romantic film text for you with Sam Heughan (Foreign) and Priyanka Chopra (Quantico), which celebrated the step forward of the singer.

In addition to apologizing to her audience and thanking them for the love received, Celine Dion wanted to send a message of hope and assured that she felt she was already “on the way to healing”. “I miss you a lot. I always give 100% when I do my show, but my condition now doesn’t allow me to do that. I have no choice but to focus on my health right now “, adds the singer in her message, in which she acknowledges how difficult it was for her to make this announcement, despite the fact that she has always shown herself as an open book. for her Fans.