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Sunday, May 18, 2025

Céline Dion cancels European concerts ‘until I’m really ready to be back on stage’

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Singer Celine Dion performs during her first World Tour called Courage in Quebec City, Montreal, Canada on Sept. 18, 2019. Dion has canceled all her scheduled tour dates through April 2024 as she battles a rare neurological disorder. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Singer Celine Dion performs during her first World Tour called Courage in Quebec City, Montreal, Canada on Sept. 18, 2019. Dion has canceled all her scheduled tour dates through April 2024 as she battles a rare neurological disorder. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Cé­line Dion has can­celled all her sched­uled tour dates through April 2024 as she con­tin­ues treat­ment for a rare neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­der.

“I’m so sor­ry to dis­ap­point all of you once again,” the singer said in a state­ment on so­cial me­dia. “I’m work­ing re­al­ly hard to build back my strength, but tour­ing can be very dif­fi­cult even when you’re 100%. It’s not fair to you to keep post­pon­ing the shows, and even though it breaks my heart, it’s best that we can­cel every­thing now un­til I’m re­al­ly ready to be back on stage again.

A to­tal of 42 Eu­ro­pean dates have been can­celled, in­clud­ing stops in the Nether­lands, France, Bel­gium, Den­mark, Nor­way, Swe­den, Fin­land, Poland, Czech Re­pub­lic, Switzer­land, Croa­t­ia, Ger­many, Hun­gary, Aus­tria, Eng­land, Scot­land and Ire­land.

Ear­li­er this year, Dion said stiff per­son syn­drome was caus­ing spasms that af­fect her abil­i­ty to walk and sing.

“Un­for­tu­nate­ly, the spasms af­fect every as­pect of my dai­ly life, some­times caus­ing dif­fi­cul­ties when I walk and not al­low­ing me to use my vo­cal cords to sing the way I’m used to,” she said.

Stiff per­son syn­drome caus­es rigid mus­cles and painful mus­cle spasms, which can be trig­gered by such things as loud nois­es or light touch. The cause isn’t known, but it is thought to be an au­toim­mune dis­or­der. Se­vere cas­es can cause dif­fi­cul­ty walk­ing and hunched pos­ture.

Dion, who has five Gram­my Awards and two Acad­e­my Awards, is the best­selling fe­male artist of all time with hits like “I’m Alive” and “My Heart Will Go On.”

(AP) —

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