Celine Dion stopped partway through her opening song in Paris on Saturday, six years after stiff person syndrome ended her last tour. What she told the arena, what the last four years actually involved, and why outlets cannot agree on how long the residency runs.
Celine Dion opens a 26-date residency at Paris La Defense Arena tonight – her first full concert since 2020, and her first since revealing her stiff person syndrome diagnosis. What she has said about the road back, and what the city did while it waited.
Celine Dion greeted fans outside a Paris hotel on Friday in her first public appearance in two years, two weeks before she opens a 16-show residency – her first proper run of concerts since stiff person syndrome forced her off the road.
In a new Harper’s Bazaar cover profile, Céline Dion details the 17 years of stiff-person syndrome symptoms that went unnamed, the days she needed Valium to function, and the training regimen behind her Paris residency this September.