Celine Dion Reveals She’s Been Diagnosed With ‘Very Rare Neurological Disorder’ Stiff-Person Syndrome in Emotional Message: Stars React

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Putting her health first. Celine Dion shared a difficult and candid message to her beloved fans detailing her diagnosis with the “very rare neurological disorder” known as stiff-person syndrome.“Hello, everyone.

I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to reach out to you,” a visibly emotional Dion, 54, said in a sit-down video she posted via Instagram on Thursday, December 8. “I miss you all so much and I can’t wait to be on stage talking to you in person.

As you know, I’ve always been an open book and I wasn’t ready to say anything before, but I’m ready now.”Taking a deep breath, the “My Heart Will Go On” singer, who also recorded the same video in French, shared, “I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time and it’s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I’ve been going through.”The “All By Myself” artist went on to explain her diagnosis, “which affects something like one in a million people,” she explained.

Dion noted that the “rare condition” of stiff-person syndrome is what has “been causing all of the spasms” that she’s been having.According to the Mayo Clinic, “stiff-man syndrome” — also known as “Moersch-Woltman syndrome” — “is a rare disorder of motor function characterized by involuntary stiffness of axial muscles and superimposed painful muscle spasms, which are often induced by startle or emotional stimuli.”Dion continued to choke back tears in her address to fans while explaining that the spasms “affect every aspect of my daily life, sometimes causing difficulties when I walk and not allowing me to use my vocal cords to sing the way I’m used to.”Unfortunately, the “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” songstress told her 5 million Instagram followers,