Celine Dion says she didn’t know that her medicine could “kill” her while she was on tour with an unknown illness.

Celine Dion has talked about her health problems and admitted that she takes “a lot” of dangerous drugs.

In an interview with Hoda Kotb on NBC, the famous singer talked about her scary drug schedule.

When asked about it, the “My Heart Will Go On” singer said that she had trouble performing for years because of spasms that made it hard for her to hit her famous high notes.

Celine, 56, went to a lot of doctors to find answers but didn’t get any.

In order to get a diagnosis, she was given very strong medications in large amounts.

“I don’t want you to think that I was taking crazy – well, they were crazy, not crazy to kill myself but crazy things to keep going,” she said.

“All right, let’s say this. Many things were tried.

She did say, though, that it was a risky route.

“Trying a lot of things when you don’t know what you have can kill you,” she said harshly.

Her doctor told Celine to start taking Valium to “relax” her body and stop spasms.

“I would take, like, for example, before a performance 20 milligrams of Valium,” she told me.

The longer Celine used the drug, the more used her body became to it. “Just walking from my dressing room to backstage, it was gone already,” she said.

Her dose had to be raised over and over, and at one point it went up to 90 milligrams.

“Every day of 90 mg of Valium can kill you,” she said.

“Twas what I needed. It made my whole body feel better. But why? For two weeks? A month? After a while, you get used to it. The link no longer works. “More, more, more.”

In 2020, when the pandemic hit, Celine could take a break from the stage to take care of her health.

With the help of doctors and nurses, she slowly stopped taking the medicine.

“It was an opportunity for me to not be brave,” she told me.

Her symptoms got worse, so she “got worse.”

Celine said that she was having trouble moving around at that time.

She finally found out what was wrong: she has Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS).

It was said that her diagnosis was “very complex.”

She was glad to have an answer, but she was afraid it meant the end of her music career.

The Cleveland Clinic says that SPS is a rare autoimmune neurological disorder.

People who have it often have stiff muscles in their stomach and trunk, but it can also happen in other muscles.

Hoda, 59, asked Celine if she had ever “broken ribs” during exceptionally bad spasms.

ONE MORE BLOW
The Grammy winner has talked about her battle with SPS before.

She recently went into a lot of detail about how she told her kids the news and how it made them feel.

“At one point, I could hardly walk, and I really missed living.” She told People, “My kids began to notice.”

“I told them, ‘Okay, they lost a parent already.'” I do not want them to be scared.

“I told them, ‘You lost your dad, but there’s something different about your mom.'” I’m not going to pass out. “I’m going to learn to deal with it,” she said.

Celine had to cancel her world tour because of her health problems.

There was a video of her telling everyone the news.

“I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time, and it’s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I’ve been going through,” she said in the video.

In the video, she didn’t cry.

Giving It All Away
There will be a documentary about Celine called I Am: Celine Dion on Prime Video on June 25.

Fans were invited to Celine’s house in the trailer, where she showed off her family.

She wrote about her problems and physical therapy while she talked about missing the stage.

Celine gave hints that she won’t let her illness stop her from making music again.

A slideshow of her on stage played before the singer started to cry.

She said, “I miss it so much.”

“I’ll walk if I can’t run.” “I’ll crawl if I can’t walk,” she said at the end of the trailer.