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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Céline Dion ‘doesn’t have control over her muscles’ due to illness, says sister

Céline Dion in December 2022.
Céline Dion in December 2022. Photograph: Celine Dion/Reuters

Céline Dion “doesn’t have control over her muscles”, her sister has said, as the singer lives with an autoimmune disease called stiff person syndrome.

Speaking to Canadian website 7 Jours, Claudette Dion said that Céline “works hard” at combatting the illness, but the future for her singing career was uncertain. “In our dreams and in hers, the idea is to return to the stage. In what state? I do not know.”

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