Celine Dion’s ‘Goal’ Is To One Day ‘Tour Again’ After Her Stiff-Person Syndrome Diagnosis: Report

View gallery

Image Credit: Ben Perry/Shutterstock

Celine Dion’s heart volition spell on, but her Courage World Tour could not. On May 26, Celine, 55, announced that, with a consciousness of tremendous disappointment, she had to cancel the remaining 2023 and upcoming 2024 dates owed to her ongoing battles with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS). Celine’s determination was made with her fans successful mind. “The extremity is for her to circuit again for sure, but erstwhile she is better,” reports PEOPLE, whose insider says that close now, “[Celine’s] focusing connected her health. She couldn’t support postponing shows – it wasn’t just to the fans.”

Celine pulled the plug connected the circuit aft realizing that she wasn’t astatine a spot wherever she could springiness her precise best. “I’m truthful atrocious to disappoint each of you erstwhile again,” she said successful the connection of her tour’s cancellation. “I’m moving truly hard to physique backmost my strength, but touring tin beryllium precise hard adjacent erstwhile you’re 100%. It’s not just to you to support postponing the shows, and adjacent though it breaks my heart, it’s champion that we cancel everything present until I’m truly acceptable to beryllium backmost connected signifier again. I privation you each to know, I’m not giving up… and I can’t hold to spot you again!”

(Ben Perry/Shutterstock)

The “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” vocalist completed the archetypal 52 dates connected the Courage World Tour before the COVID-19 pandemic unopen everything down. In aboriginal 2021, she worked connected her archetypal movie – Love Again – but came face-to-face with a aesculapian diagnosis that changed her life. In 2020, she went nationalist with the information that she has a rare, incurable condition that, contempt its name, is simply a very real wellness issue. SPS is “a uncommon autoimmune neurological upset that astir commonly causes musculus stiffness and achy spasms that travel and spell and tin worsen implicit time,” according to the John Hopkins website. “However, immoderate radical acquisition different symptoms specified arsenic an unsteady gait, treble vision, or slurred speech.”

(Larry Marano/Shutterstock)

SPS “most often causes achy musculus contractions and spasms that often statesman successful the legs and back,” continues the aesculapian website. “Spasms tin besides impact the abdomen, and little often the precocious trunk, arms, neck, and face. The spasms tin hap successful episodes, particularly erstwhile a idiosyncratic with SPS is amazed oregon startled oregon moves suddenly. Cold temperatures and affectional accent tin besides acceptable disconnected a musculus spasm. In immoderate people, the spasms are brought connected by definite exercises oregon touch.”

Chronic pain, shortness of breath, unsteadiness, stiff/rigid posture, and trouble walking are conscionable immoderate of the symptoms. One tin besides make an exaggerated curve of the little back, anxiety, and/or agoraphobia.

Click to Subscribe to Get Our Free HollywoodLife Daily Newsletter to get the hottest celeb news.