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Céline Dion Shares New Year’s Video Message to Fans

The singer offers a greeting that underscores her ongoing management of stiff-person syndrome.

Overview

  • Posting to Instagram on Dec. 31, Dion wished followers good health, happiness, and peace and thanked them for keeping her in their hearts before blowing a kiss to the camera.
  • She lives with stiff-person syndrome, a rare autoimmune neurological disorder that causes painful muscle spasms and has affected her ability to sing, a diagnosis she disclosed in 2021.
  • In a 2024 Amazon Prime documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, she allowed difficult scenes of convulsions to be shown, and director Irene Taylor said Dion wanted the footage included to foster understanding.
  • Although largely out of the spotlight, she made select appearances in 2024, including at the Grammys, a brief performance during the Paris Olympics ceremony, and the Lincoln Center premiere of her film, where she praised her neurologist, Dr. Amanda Piquet.
  • A week before the New Year’s post, she shared a lighthearted Grinch-themed Christmas reel that playfully referenced a ‘Grinchified’ rendition of All By Myself.