An ENT doctor close to Celine Dion reacts to the singer’s announcement about her illness

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Singer Céline Dion has announced that she suffers from a rare neurological disease, the “stiff person syndrome”, which forces her to cancel part of her concerts scheduled for 2023. Georges Abitbol, ​​ENT doctor, voice specialist and former collaborator of the artist, reacted to this announcement on the set of BFMTV.

Celine Dion has just announced the cancellation of her summer tour of Europe due to a rare disease she suffers from, the stiff person syndrome (“stiff person syndrome”), a “rare muscular disorder” which would affect “one person in a million”, according to her.

Faced with this announcement, the ENT doctor specialist in the voice Georges Abitbol, ​​who has worked with the singer in the past, was able to provide clarification on the consequences that the disease could have on the career of the Quebec artist.

“This kind of pathology will affect the whole body” and therefore his vocal apparatus, specifies the doctor.

The practitioner also emphasizes the physical effects that stage fright can have. Before going on stage, “there is a stress, there is a certain thing that you are going to give. You have to be up to this stress, have the means and give yourself the means to do it. (… ) This is the reason why we can explain that it [Céline Dion] come, let it go, let it come…”

The psychosomatic aspect of vocal pathologies

The doctor also explains that Celine Dion’s difficulties in recovering from the death of her husband and producer René Angelil in 2016 play “enormously” in her weakening in recent years. The singer had also lost her mother in 2020.

“Everything is psychosomatic or almost and even more vocal pathologies”, judge Georges Abitbol.

“When you have a big upset, if only when you say hello to a friend, ‘Hello, how are you? – I’m fine,’ you know right away that’s not true,” he explains. he.

The factors of longevity (Céline Dion began her career at 13) or age “of course” impact the artist’s health and singing abilities according to the doctor, but he assures us that the cause of his poor health, “it is above all the emotional shock of all that she has lived and all that she still lives”.

In her video posted on Instagram, the Quebec star says that never being able to return to the stage “seems unimaginable” to her. Georges Abitbol affirms that he does not “believe” in the possibility of an end to his career without new dates for the artist. However, he specifies that this is a personal impression and not a medical opinion.

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