Blind in one eye due to an illness whose nature she still does not know, Hélène Ségara revealed that she also had health problems with her vocal cords. The singer of “There are too many people who love you” almost lost her diva voice because of “a vocal cord cyst”.
Guest of “Sept à trois”, Sunday May 5, Hélène Ségara returned to this time when she almost said goodbye to her career as a singer. “It was not an illness”, as she tells it, but a misplaced cyst which had caused her to lose her voice in the middle of a performance “on stage, in Canada”: “I saw a great ENT who gave me said there was no hope…”
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A miracle doctor
To the rescue, her friend Céline Dion. “She sent me to see her doctor in New York. He told me that I would never sing again,” says Hélène Ségara, not without emotion. “I returned to Paris almost silent. I entered a church, I knelt before the Virgin. At the time, I had a child, I was a single mother, with no help from anyone. »
“I said: ‘How am I going to raise this child now?’” Finally, thanks to a laser operation, the singer was able to resume her career as if nothing had happened: “The doctor gave me back the ropes brand new vocals. It was my first little miracle,” she concludes.
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