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In front of the camera, the Quebec singer assured her fans that her return to the stage would take place. Even if it wasn’t for right away.
PEOPLE – A reassuring message, but which requires a little patience. During the interview given by Céline Dion to TF1 this Sunday, June 16, the Quebec singer whose career is now hampered by a neurological disease promised that she would return to the stage and concerts, two years after putting her career on hold. break.
By speaking directly to the viewers present in front of their screen, Céline Dion made them a promise. “ I’m going to come back on stage. I don’t know when, but I’m going to come back on stage “, she declared moved in front of the camera.
“I arranged to meet you very often, I asked you to sing with me very often (…) You came every time, it was extraordinary gifts and trips”she also mentions, ensuring that she takes advantage of “all this positive energy” around her to move forward and make this promise to her audience.
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“I want to be on stage tomorrow. But if I do too much, I can have a seizure. The body stiffens, the voice, everything. Everything stops working. For a few minutes or hours »she also mentions about her crises that are impossible to anticipate.
“It started in the voice. I tried to find bridges, tunnels to take my voice to different places… Sing a little more through my nose…”but without success, she then reveals in this interview recorded in Las Vegas.
Lies ” for more than fifteen years »
His promise made at the end of this interview with Anne-Claire Coudray, comes on the occasion of the release of a film on Prime Video on June 25, I am: Celine Dion. More precisely, a documentary which will look back on the absence of the singer since the announcement of her illness. The international star had in fact been forced to cancel a series of shows planned for 2023 and 2024, declaring that she was not strong enough to go on tour.
Ahead of this interview, journalist Anne-Claire Coudray assured franceinfo that Céline Dion will “ much better than in the documentary ». And believes that the singer especially needed to atone for her lies. Lies to herself, but also to her “public for more than fifteen years, with this disease which was beginning to emerge and which took time to identify”she assures.
No longer able to bear the pain of lying about her physical condition, she now fully accepts her choice to prioritize her health. After having favored self-medication for a long time at a time when she did not understand the illness that inhabited her. “I found myself lying, taking medication, an anti-inflammatory, an antispasmodic, eucalyptus steam baths… Until I took very dangerous medications. Valium, among others. And without having a diagnosis. »
From now on, she feels ready to make her fans wait a little to work on her voice and adapt it to the “stiff man syndrome”as we can discover in the documentary.
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