The artist made it known in December 2022 that she was diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome.
Celine Dion’s sister revealed new details about the disease suffered by the singer, assuring that “the situation has not improved” and that every day she is trying to “overcome her difficulties”.
In an interview in Canada, Claudette confessed that the interpreter of My heart will go on, is a strong woman and is doing everything possible to recover.
“We are crossing our fingers that researchers will find a remedy for this horrible disease,” she said.
She also revealed that the family has a hard time coping with the symptoms, “We know very little. There are spasms, which are impossible to control. You know how some people jump up and down at night because of a cramp in their leg or calf? It’s a bit like that, but in all the muscles. There’s little we can do to support her and relieve her pain.”
Just a few months ago, Claudette shared that she had not been able to find a medication that would help her or at least ease her pain.
Given the complicated situation the artist is going through, another of her sisters, Linda, moved in to live with her and her children.
Meanwhile, Claudette, in her last declarations, admitted that there is very little that she and her family can do about it, since very little is known about the disease.
She stressed that she does not lose hope of seeing Celine on stage again.
An incurable ailment
It was in December 2022 when Céline publicly announced that she was diagnosed with a disease that is considered rare by medical experts, the Stiff Person Syndrome.
From that moment on, she received all the love and support from her loved ones (her thirteen siblings and three children), and from her fans.
Claudette even took advantage of this interview to thank her legion of fans: “They love Céline, not only for the voice she has, but also for the human being she is. For the woman she has become, for the mother she has become. We love her for the person she is.”
The condition known as stiff-person syndrome is characterized by episodes of stiffness and muscle spasms throughout the body, from the trunk to the arms and legs.
It is a neurological, autoimmune and incurable disease.
This ailment is related and is produced, in many occasions, by an increased sensitivity to noise, to the touch and as a response to the startle, which causes spasmodic muscular movements.
It is a health problem that affects more women than men and sometimes leads the patient to be unable to move or walk.