Shania Twain prays for Céline Dion after incurable neurological disorder diagnosis: ‘Gotta be so difficult’

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From one female powerhouse to another, Shania Twain is sending prayers to Céline Dion. Dion has stepped away from the spotlight since announcing she was diagnosed with an incurable neurological disorder late last year. "I hope to be able to connect with her at some point," Twain told Billboard of the "Beauty and the Beast" singer. "I think it’s gotta be so difficult, and I know — only speaking from my experience — how horrifying it is to think that something is preventing you from singing, or interfering with that joy in your life.

So I just pray that she is able to overcome it and she will be up there [on stage] singing for us all again," she added. "I’m such a fan of Céline’s voice," Twain said. "She’s a one-of-a-kind, extraordinary vocalist and entertainer." Twain has been candid about her previous health struggles, including a surgery to strengthen her vocal cords, which left her unable to speak for three weeks.

She said she sustained nerve damage as a direct result of Lyme Disease. "It was quite depressing. Devastating to imagine that I would never sing again, even speaking, really, you know has always been difficult," she told Lorraine Kelly on her show of having the disease.

Also asthmatic, Twain revealed to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she had a "really bad bout with COVID," that was "very threatening." "I had to be air-vaced by a special team…Nobody else would fly me to the hospital…You can't just pick up a COVID patient and fly them to a hospital," she recalled of the ordeal.