CELINE DION. Withdrawn for health reasons, the singer Céline Dion would suffer from the “globus syndrome”, a disease which would prevent her from singing.
[Mis à jour le 1er décembre 2022 à 19h27] A “lump in the throat feeling” and “spasms”: do we now know what disease Celine Dion suffers from? Asked in the biography Celine Dion: the real story by Laurence Pieau and Hervé Tropéa, one of her doctors explains that the singer suffers from “globus syndrome”, as spotted TF1Info.
According to Jean Abitbol, Céline Dion’s ENT, this disease is “something extremely simple”. “We feel a feeling of a lump in the throat as well as sorts of spasms which generally occur when we have experienced a period of relatively aggressive stress, explains the doctor. To this is added for her a problem linked to the menopause, because during menopause, female hormones no longer play the same role. Associated with the globus, it causes this impression of gastric reflux, tight throat and spasms.”
The “globus syndrome” is, according to the ENT, a “psychosomatic reaction” and has several consequences on the body: “It is difficult to breathe, it is difficult to sing, it is difficult to speak.” If the spasms suffered by Celine Dion have been made public for several years, they could have found another explanation.
Celine Dion pays tribute to Jean-Jacques Goldman
After months of silence, a consequence of health problems, the Canadian singer made a timid comeback in November 2022 with the cover of the song Abraham’s memorycredits of a tribute album to Jean-Jacques Goldman entitled The Goldman Legacy 2revealed RTL. The disc is released this Friday, December 2, 2022.
“When I called her to offer her this, she was super happy to participate in a tribute to Jean-Jacques but she still had vocal problems, she was not yet in good enough shape to do something (… ) She has health problems, that’s true. It’s getting better, it takes time, it’s not easy,” Erick Benzi, arranger and composer at the helm of the Goldman tribute project, told radio. A song announcing the long-awaited return of Celine Dion, absent for two and a half years for health reasons? For fans, there is hope.
Concert dates canceled for Celine Dion
Fans have been watching for the slightest sign since the beginning of the year. Celine Dion still makes her audience languish as the end of the year approaches, with more than reduced visibility on the date of her return to the stage. In recent months, a not very encouraging index has even come to concern a little more those who follow the news of the Canadian diva. At the end of October, the site of Resorts World in Las Vegas, where Celine Dion was soon to begin a “residency”, i.e. a series of several days of concerts, briefly removed the page announcing the event. A few days later, the arrival of the 54-year-old singer was again announced on the website of the hotel chainbut no specific date.
Celine Dion must perform at Resorts World in Las Vegas since 2021. But this “residence” of the star has already been canceled twice, because of her health problems: once in May 2021 and a second time in the spring. last. Sick, Celine Dion indeed announced on April 29 a new postponement of all her concerts, with tears in her eyes. “I feel a little better … but I still have spasms,” explained the interpreter of “So that you still love me” in a press release. Wishing to be “on top of [s]in shape”, Céline Dion assured that she was “looking forward” to returning but did not feel “quite ready”.
A return of Celine Dion in 2022?
Will Celine Dion return to the stage before the end of 2022? Information and rumors have been intertwining for weeks. AEG, the tour organizer, has already hinted that the star could sing again live across the Atlantic by the end of the year, for his show “Céline”. According to Vital Vegas, Celine Dion could begin her residency at Resorts World on the eve of New Year. “She is said to have largely recovered from her medical issues and has contacted fashion designers to prepare the show’s wardrobe,” writes the local Sin City outlet.
Lately, Celine Dion herself gave pledges by announcing a reissue of her 1998 Christmas album ”These are special times”, with a title that should be unveiled on November 11, 2022. The only news given by the diva previously concerned the tributes to the memory of Daniel Lévi, the singer who died on August 6, then to Elizabeth II, who died on September 8… If Celine Dion did not return in 2022, the expectation would obviously be postponed to next year . However, European concerts are still announced in 2023, after three cancellations of his tour on the old continent (read below).
According to information from the magazine Here at the end of September, Celine Dion would also be about to make her return to French television. The singer is currently in negotiations with TF1 to participate in the great revival of Star Academy. “Nothing has been signed yet, the negotiations are always very complicated with stars of this stature, but it’s being discussed and everything is still open”, explained to the people newspaper a member of the production.
What symptoms does Celine Dion suffer from?
Since late 2021, when Celine Dion announced the cancellation of a series of concerts in Las Vegas, news about her health has been shrouded in thick mystery. “She can no longer get out of bed, move or walk,” one of her relatives told the magazine. Here is in October 2021. “She suffers from pain in her legs and feet which paralyzes her. She is very weak and has lost a lot of weight.”
If the cancellation of Celine Dion’s concerts are indeed linked to medical reasons, her illness has been marked with the seal of silence from the start. Her sister Claudette, who was in charge of giving news on the diva’s state of health last year, barely said more. “This postponement is not a whim (…) It’s always the same thing: she is terribly demanding with herself. Her body said stop”, she explained in the columns of Paris Match on October 28 2021, explaining that this state was also due to “premenopause, the hormonal changes that entails”.
The symptoms themselves are a priori known. Celine Dion suffers from “severe and persistent muscle spasms”, preventing her from going on stage. “What is happening to her is painful. But there is nothing serious, otherwise she would have told me: Céline does not hesitate to confide in her and to ask for advice when something is wrong. I know that she is in good spirits. She is very well surrounded by the members of our family”, underlined Claudette Dion, who then estimated the duration of Celine Dion’s absence at “a few weeks, even a few months…” twelve since these declarations.
The cancellation of Celine Dion’s tour in France
Celine Dion announced last May that she was forced to postpone her European tour Courage and therefore, his French concerts scheduled at Paris la Défense Arena on September 16, 17, 20, 21, 23 and 24, 2022. These shows in the capital had already been postponed twice due to the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions sanitary. Tickets for the 6 French dates at Paris La Défense Arena of the tour Courage World Tour from 2020 or 2021 or 2022 will be valid for 2023.
“I am so sorry, saddened to have to postpone the shows once again. The first time it was obviously because of the pandemic and this time it is my health that forces me to postpone the shows of the European tour”, explained Celine Dion in a video posted on YouTube shortly after the announcement.
This new postponement is an opportunity for her to give reassuring news: “I still feel a little better. My doctors are following me. I am receiving treatment. But I still have muscle spasms. Recovery takes a lot longer. time than I thought. I have to be in good shape, in good health so that I can give 100% of myself on stage because that’s what you deserve.”
Celine Dion’s new concert dates in Paris
Initially, after the first two postponements of Celine Dion’s European tour, the Canadian diva was to be at Paris La Défense Arena for six dates: September 16, 17, 20, 21, 23 and 24, 2022. After this new setback to the health of the singer, the Courage World Tour will pass through Paris, in the same venue, in September 2023. Here are the details of Celine Dion’s new concert dates (compared to the initial date, then to the first two postponements):
- September 1, 2023 – Postponement of 06/26/20, 03/19/21 and 09/16/22
- September 2, 2013 – Postponement of 06/26/2020, 03/20/21 and 09/17/22
- September 5, 2023 – Postponement of 06/30/20, 03/23/21 and 09/20/22
- September 6, 2023 – Postponement of 01/07/20, 24/03/21 and 01/09/22
- September 9, 2023 – Postponement of 07/03/20, 03/26/21 and 09/23/22
- September 10, 2023 – Postponement of 04/07/20, 27/03/21 and 24/09/22)