Editorial staff of El País
“I can’t take any more lies,” he says. Celine Dion in I Am: Celine Dionthe documentary that arrived on Prime Video this Tuesday and in which it tells the intimacies of a life marked by stiff person syndrome that she has been suffering for 17 years, and that has changed her completely.
In the film, the singer tells how the use of medication to alleviate the pain due to her disorder has been increasing and confesses that she took between 80 and 90 milligrams of Valium daily. That was just one of the strategies he resorted to to be able to continue with live concerts: “I cheated, like hitting the microphone as if it were the fault of the sound. Sometimes we had to stop the show to change clothes, but now didn’t come back,” he explains about what happened when the pills stopped working in the middle of the performance.
One of the toughest moments of the documentary has gone viral in the last few hours, and it is when Celine Dion She suffers an attack during filming. She is seen lying on a bed, her face transformed by pain, while receiving medical assistance; she wanted the images to be part of the project and to be released, to offer a complete portrait of her current life.
I Am: Celine Dion lasts 90 minutes and somehow explains the fact that the singer of “My Heart Will Go On” has had to move away from the stage. His syndrome is rare and affects one person in a million; It is a neurological disorder that causes ascending rigidity, and is characterized by episodes of muscle spasms with great pain.
“Last year I got so sick that I couldn’t even walk. I lost my balance and was in a lot of pain. I still can’t use my voice. I miss music a lot, but I also miss people,” she says in a project that includes her children and those closest to her.
