Celine Dionis determined to return to performing, despite her health challenges.
“I’m gonna go back onstage, even if I have to crawl.
Even if I have to talk with my hands.
Celine Dion spoke about her illness.Emma McIntyre/Getty
I will,” she said.
“I am Celine Dion.
It’s because I want to.
And I miss it.”
“I was going down, down, down.
It took my whole life,” Dion said.
I didn’t want to stop.
I wanted to stay onstage.
I wanted to be brave instead of smart.
That was wrong."
She was able to sing an abbreviated concert that night.
She also took medication to help her medication, Kotb noted, that was dangerous.
“I did not know, honestly, that it could kill me.
“It was gone already.”
Then came the pandemic, and Dion finally stopped working to reset and focus on her health.
In December 2022, she announcedher diagnosis.
She’s always said that she wanted to fight her way back to the stage.
