‘I Am: Céline Dion’: Emotional trailer shows singer’s health struggles

Céline Dion is able to open up concerning the challenges she faces dwelling with stiff individual syndrome (SPS), as proven within the trailer for her upcoming documentary, I Am: Céline Dion.

In the trailer, shared by Amazon MGM Studios on Thursday, the Quebec chanteuse turns into emotional speaking about how the uncommon dysfunction has affected her life.

“I’ve been recognized with a really uncommon neurological dysfunction and I wasn’t able to say something earlier than,” she says within the clip. “However I’m prepared now.”

“I see my life and I like every bit of it. When a woman loves her sneakers, she all the time makes them match,” she continues. “It’s not exhausting to do a present. It’s exhausting to cancel the present. I’m working exhausting every single day. However I’ve to confess, it’s been a battle. I miss it a lot.”

The documentary will discover her struggles to get again on stage and do what she loves finest: singing.

The movie, following Dion by means of her every day life, is described as “a deeply private exploration of perseverance and internal power, in addition to every day battle and sacrifice. It’s a celebration of the human spirit’s immense will to maintain going, even when the one sense of self they’ve ever recognized has been misplaced.”

“This final couple of years has been such a problem for me, the journey from discovering my situation to studying the way to dwell with and handle it, however to not let it outline me,” Dion mentioned in an announcement saying the movie.

“Because the street to resuming my performing profession continues, I’ve realized how a lot I’ve missed it, of with the ability to see my followers. Throughout this absence, I made a decision I wished to doc this a part of my life to assist others who share this prognosis.”

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Dion has largely pulled again from the general public eye since she introduced her prognosis in late 2022, shortly after suspending a number of of her European tour dates.

She did, nevertheless, supply followers an enormous shock when she appeared on the Grammy Awards stage in February to current the award for Album of the Yr. She has additionally made a number of appearances at NHL video games in latest months, sharing her locker room visits to varied groups visiting Las Vegas.

SPS, researchers suspect, could also be the results of an autoimmune response the place the physique assaults nerve cells within the central nervous system that management muscle motion. There isn’t any recognized remedy.

The commonest signs are muscle rigidity, stiffness and spasms within the muscular tissues of the trunk, together with the again and limbs.

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‘I Am: Céline Dion’ will likely be obtainable to stream on Prime Video on June 25.

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