“If I can’t stroll, I’ll crawl”

Prime Video has launched the trailer for I Am: Celine Dion, a brand-new documentary in regards to the iconic Canadian singer.

Within the trailer for I Am: Celine Dion, new footage reveals the singer Dion enjoying along with her kids at dwelling, interspersed with archival footage of her  acting on tour. Over narration, Dion expresses her gratitude for profession earlier than being disrupted by a recording of a 911 name.

That is adopted up by an intimate take a look at Dion recording a video assertion – which was launched in December 2022 – that exposed she had been identified with a neurological dysfunction referred to as stiff particular person syndrome.

In direction of the top of the trailer, Dion speaks via tears: “I miss it a lot. The folks, I miss them. If I can’t run, I’ll stroll. If I can’t stroll, I’ll crawl.”

Stiff particular person syndrome is reportedly an especially uncommon autoimmune neurological situation that impacts “one particular person in one million”. In response to Healthline, the situation primarily impacts the mind and spinal wire and causes muscle stiffness, posture issues and painful spasms.

“These spasms have an effect on each facet of my life, typically inflicting difficulties once I stroll and never permitting me to make use of my vocal cords to sing the way in which I’m used to,” Dion has tearfully defined in her 2022 assertion.

In March, Dion commemorated Stiff Individual Syndrome Consciousness Day by posting a message to her followers on Instagram. “As a lot of you already know, within the fall of 2022, I used to be identified with Stiff Individual Syndrome (SPS),” she wrote.

“Making an attempt to beat this autoimmune dysfunction has been one of many hardest experiences of my life, however I stay decided to someday get again onto the stage and to dwell as regular of a life as doable,” the singer added.

Dion’s final public look was on the 2024 Grammys, the place she offered the Album of the 12 months award to Taylor Swift.