Canadian singer Celine Dion has revealed that she hid her struggle with Stiff Person Syndrome for 17 years before disclosing it to the public.
She made it known in an interview with Hoda Kotb on the Today Show where she revealed how she was secretly battling the illness while managing her late husband, Rene Angelil’s cancer battle and raising their children.
“We did not know what was going on [with me]. I did not take the time… I should have stopped, took the time to figure it out,” she said.
“And like it wasn’t enough, my husband as well is fighting for his own life.
“I had to raise my kids, I had to hide, I had to try to be a hero – while feeling my body leaving me,’ she continued. ‘[I was] holding on to my own dreams.”
The songstress explained that she eventually opened up about her illness because keeping it from “the people who got her to where she was” was a huge “burden”.
Recall, she first revealed her diagnosis in 2022, but confessed that she has been experiencing symptoms way back in 2008.
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