The first time I shed real tears this month was because I watched Celine Dion’s recently released documentary
In 2022, Celine Dion, who sang the Titanic theme song "My Heart Will Go On", announced that she suffered from zombie syndrome. The disease is temporarily gone.
When the news came out, the whole world was shocked.
Two years after her disappearance, Celine Dion publicly talked about her illness for the first time in a documentary, and her most vulnerable and unbearable appearance was also recorded.
From a glamorous diva to a warrior against fate, "i am celine dion".
Stiff Celine Dion
First of all, let’s talk about what exactly is stiff person syndrome.
People often confuse this disease with ALS, but in fact the former is a movement disorder and the latter is a motor neurone disease.
As the disease progresses, it is common to experience persistent or fluctuating stiffness in the muscles of the trunk, limbs, and neck. The abdominal muscles are plate-like or stone-like, and the agonist and antagonist muscles are affected at the same time.
joints are fixed, and free movement is limited. In severe cases, the joints are fixed in a stiff posture.
Simply put, this disease can cause muscle spasms, and in severe cases, the whole body may become stiff.
Celine Dion’s first attack started from her throat.
At the beginning of the 21st century, she discovered that she had vocal cord spasm when singing, and was unable to make a perfect and natural transition between high and low notes -
not only would she go out of tune, but even break her voice.
However, the diagnosis of stiff person syndrome is a painful, complicated and long process. At the beginning of the disease, Celine Dion could only swallow normally through medication.
"I need my instrument, and there is something wrong with my instrument."
In the first few years, she would take medication to maintain performance status, but as the disease progressed and the number of performances increased, her dosage gradually increased. big.
At the craziest time, she took about 00 mg of diazepam and other drugs every day.
What is this concept?
If this continued, such a huge amount of medication would be enough to kill her.
But what is heartbreaking is that although she has been using medication to control her vocal cords, the spasms still persist.
What a painful stage it was: the cause of was unknown, the medication could not be stopped, and criticism abounded.
Sometimes, the medicine can only keep her in a normal state for 20 minutes. Whenever she is out of control on stage, she can only find ways to prevent her condition from being exposed.
Celine Dion will "cheat": she sometimes pretends to take a shot of the microphone, sometimes she excuses herself to go out and change clothes.
In the documentary, Celine Dion tries to hum a melody that was once very easy for her, but the tone is very different from before.
Even after all these years, she still breaks down at the sound of her own voice.
She didn't want everyone to hear her singing such a voice, so she would make up some reasons to postpone the performance.
Sometimes she has a sinus infection, sometimes she has an ear problem.
Until one day, she could no longer hide the secret -
"This secret is too heavy and I can't bear it anymore."
For a professional singer, the most difficult thing is to cancel the performance.
In 2022, Celine Dion, who has been suffering from the disease for more than ten years, decided to suspend her career and focus on recovery.
At that time, she would experience severe muscle stiffness and spasms from time to time, unable to move her body on her own and unable to control her breathing.
Spasms may appear in various places such as the throat, abdomen, spine, hands, etc. She even had a rib fracture due to the disease.
In 2023, Celine Dion was often unsteady on her feet. Walking normally became her number one problem, and her body often felt pain.
Celine Dion was unable to sing in high key because the muscles in the front of her lungs became very stiff.
This feeling is worse than death. Celine Dion choked up several times in the
documentary. She once said that music is the conductor in her life, but now this "conductor" cannot cooperate with her body.
Illness plagued her body and disrupted her self-perception.
"When I can no longer sing those heavenly sounds, will I still be the Celine Dion that people know?"
In the past two years, she had to spend 5 days a week in rehabilitation and could never get out of bed and walk. To being able to perform simple movements, Celine Dion's every progress was accompanied by tremendous pain.
Her goal is to stand on stage again and become Celine Dion again.
"I miss the music and the audience. If I can't run, I will walk. If I can't walk, I will crawl, but I will never stop."
After her physical condition gradually stabilized, Celine decided to sing again.
Entering the recording studio to work again after two years, Celine Dion was excited and struggling. She didn't know if her condition was OK, and she wasn't sure whether the result would be another disappointment.
She said that she was like an apple tree. Now the branches have begun to deform and the yield has been reduced, but many people still want to get her apples.
So she chose to confess everything about herself to the camera, including her vulnerability and helplessness, collapse and despair. The documentary
is an explanation.
As for this recording, Celine Dion also allowed the filming team to follow her. She wanted to show everything to the outside world without reservation.
When the recording started, the atmosphere in the entire recording studio was very tense, and Celine's hands were shaking slightly.
She tried singing a few lines first, but she still couldn't control her singing and went out of tune.
Celine apologized to the team over and over again, doing it again and again, enduring both physical and mental pressure to gamble on her career future.
But perhaps regret always runs through life.
During the recording process, Celine Dion suffered a severe convulsion, which soon turned into a terrible epilepsy.
She was put on the bed by the team's medical staff. Her whole body was stiff, she had difficulty breathing, and her face was twitching.
If you just look at this picture, you would have a hard time imagining that this is the sparkling singing queen.
She can't move her fingers, can't speak a word, and is in pain all over her body. The
team members comforted her while carrying out rescue operations, but Celine Dion could only watch all this helplessly, with heartbreaking sobs coming out of her mouth.
What is very sad is that during the onset of Stiff Person Syndrome, the patient cannot move his body, but his brain remains awake throughout the entire process.
In the past ten years, she has faced all her unhappiness. The reason why the
documentary can record this disease outbreak in such detail is because Celine herself agreed.
Although Celine could not move, her face was full of tears.
To be honest, Yang felt very heartbroken when he saw this scene.
has to admit that she is really a very brave person. She is willing to show her helplessness and unbearability nakedly in front of the camera -
not only conveys the current situation to fans, but also makes the whole world understand about this disease.
Celine Dion said that every time she got sick, she felt like someone was strangling her neck. 17 years later, this hand still did not strangle her to death.
She is still resisting fate.
She is a queen, but also a warrior
Many people’s impression of Celine Dion should be this song, right?
my heart will go on, céline dion
(do it again!)
Yes, this classic film and television original song made Celine Dion famous all over the world, winning 5 Grammys, 20 Juno Awards and 43 Flicks Sri Lanka Award.
She is one of the three major vocals in the world and an indispensable leader in the international singing community.
Many people think that she is a smooth-sailing Quebec genius, but the fact is that Celine Dion's life is full of ups and downs.
She was born into a large family of 14 children, both of whom were musicians.
Because the family had a large family and life was tight, her mother opened a tavern in her hometown, and the young Celine sang in the tavern.
Celine is talented and loves to sing. In order to support her, her mother wrote songs for her. Later, Celine's ability was discovered by music manager Reni.
If it weren’t for Rennie mortgaging his house to pay for Celine’s album, perhaps there would be no Celine Dion in the world.
Later, Renee also became Celine Dion's husband.
html In 1981, Celine released her first French album; in 1988, she won the Eurovision Song Contest and signed a contract with Sony; in 1998, "My Heart Will Go On" became popular all over the world.
Everyone thinks that Celine is at the peak of her life, with a happy career and a happy family.
But soon, her husband Renee was diagnosed with throat cancer.
In order to take care of her husband, Celine chose to take a break at the peak of her career and gave birth to two children through in vitro fertilization.
She knew that she might become a single mother, and she also knew that her efforts might ruin her career, but she was willing to do so.
Because when she was the weakest and most incompetent, Rainey, as a music manager, devoted all his energy to her, and she didn't think there was anything wrong with giving back.
At that time, in order to take care of the family and treat her husband's illness, she signed a five-year singing contract with the hotel to ensure that the family was stable and she did not have to travel around.
In 2016, Rainey, who had suffered from cancer for decades, passed away. Celine Dion almost collapsed . She lost weight quickly and cried loudly on the stage.
And just when she was finally freed from love and ready to bloom in the music world again, a rare disease found her again.
In Celine Dion's documentary, she once said that she never cares about the size of her shoes. As long as she likes a pair of shoes, she can wear them in any size.
"I walk the shoe, the shoe don't walk me."
To some extent, this behavior is also a projection of Celine Dion's attitude towards life: She knows and does one, and she wants to control her own life.
So what does pain mean?
Celine Dion never gave up on the life she wanted.
At the end of the documentary, Celine, who had recovered from her illness, stood up and sang again. She worked hard to control her tone and timbre.
She is different from before, but she has never changed.
The song she sang was "who i am".
And what is the meaning of the title of this song? I think this documentary is the answer.
A great life has no end.
She is Celine Dion, Even if she can no longer give an apple, she will always be the big tree.
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