When a female star's voice and body are completely out of control

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01Amazon launched the documentary "This Is Me: Celine · Dion", which records the struggle of legendary female singer Celine · Dion when facing the loss of control of her vocal cords and body.

02 Dion was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome in 2022, an extremely rare condition that causes muscle spasms and stiffness throughout the body.

03Despite the difficulties, Celine · Dion continued to sing, and even struggled to complete the performance even when she had a spasmodic attack.

In the 04 documentary, Celine · Dion showed her courage and determination to fight the disease, and she said that she would never give up singing.

05At present, Celine · Dion is trying to adapt to the life changes brought about by the disease, hoping to stand on the stage again one day.

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On June 21, Amazon launched the documentary "This Is Me: Celine · Dion". Originally, the film was supposed to chronicle the legendary singer as she embarked on another world tour, but the reality is that it is an almost naked record of what happens to a diva when she loses control of her voice and body.

Text: Lexie

Edited by Jin Shi

Get out of hand

Three years ago, the director of the documentary, Erin ·Taylor, received a phone call from Celine · Dion's agent.

At that time, Erin was filming a documentary for Celine · Dion's new world tour, but the agent said on the phone: "I have to tell you one thing, Celine is very sick, no one knows, and we don't know what's going on."

Eileen panicked. Before taking over the project, she didn't know much about Celine · Dion, only that she was the very thin female singer who sang "My Heart Is Eternal". Later, through Zoom, Erin met Celine · Dion for the first time. Through the camera, Celine first saw a few trees that were not tall in Eileen's yard, and the two began to discuss the shape, variety, and taste of the trees, and Eileen slowly relaxed, "She was really cheerful, I could let my guard down and say to myself, 'You're actually talking to a woman, a mother, someone who loves trees like you'."

A few months later, Erin and the filming team walked into Celine · Dion's home for the first time. Shooting began. Facing Erin, Celine showed her most relaxed and casual side. She wore pressed slacks and a white shirt, no makeup, and her hair was tied in a simple bun. She doesn't have much to plan for her day-to-day life, making coffee and playing with her dog Bear as soon as she wakes up in the morning; She lies by the pool in her favorite pajamas, listening to music and dozing off.

Huddled in the corner of the sofa, Celine · Dion told Erin that she had begun to have vocal cord spasms as early as seventeen years ago. At the time, she was touring Germany and woke up one morning for breakfast, then found a dressing room and began to practice vocalization for 45 minutes as usual. But with a mouth, she noticed that her voice had become sharper. It was an unfamiliar sound, and she quickly ruled out fatigue as a cause—if the voice was tired, it would usually be a degree or half lower, and the tone would be lower and thicker, rather than sharper. Since then, this has happened repeatedly. She tried everything from steam showers to over-the-counter medications to relieve her spasticity, and made frequent visits to different ENT doctors with little success.

The theme of the whole documentary was completely changed. Originally, it was going to document how the legendary female singer went on another world tour, but later, it was almost naked - what happens to a diva when she loses control of her voice and body?

Shortly after candidly telling Erin about her condition, in November 2021, Celine · Dion announced the postponement of her concert in Las Vegas due to "severe and persistent muscle spasms".

But throughout 2022, Celine · Dion's condition did not improve, and she was finally diagnosed with an autoimmune neurological disease - stiff person syndrome (SPS), an extremely rare disease with only one or two patients per million people, and twice as many women as men. Known causes include a high sensitivity of cranial nerves to noise, touch, or emotional stress, and during an attack, the patient falls into completely uncontrolled muscle spasms and body stiffness.

What kind of concrete feeling is that? Celine · Dion said that when the spasmodic seizure occurs, "it is like someone wants to strangle me, like someone has been pressing your throat", and at the same time, the abdomen and spine will continue to cramp, "at one point the ribs will break".

As a documentary filmmaker, Erin knew the pain Celine · Dion endured, but she never imagined that one day, this scene would actually happen in front of the camera.

On that day, Celine · Dion was in the studio trying to record a new song for the movie "Love Again". In the middle of the recording, the spasmodic seizures came. At that moment, she couldn't control any muscle in her body, not even her open mouth and eyes could not close, and her whole body was as stiff as a stone, and she needed the help of the people around her to turn over. She let out a wail of pain, tears streaming down her eyes. It wasn't until the therapist applied two first-aid sprays that her condition stabilized and she was curled up in a white blanket.

Eileen said the whole course lasted nearly 40 minutes, "and it was the most unusual and uncomfortable moment of my life because I didn't know what was going on, and we weren't sure if she felt it or if she would survive."

Just when the spasm was ongoing, the therapist asked Celine · Dion if she needed to turn off the camera, and she refused - everyone knew what a perfectionist this was, and in this documentary, there is also a detail that when she learned that the therapist was coming to massage her feet, she hurriedly asked if she needed to rub some foot lotion, and then hurried to the bathroom, picked up a brush and brushed the soles of her feet. But this time, she took the initiative to choose to show her weakest, helpless, and painful side to everyone.

The show must go on

In fact, everything has already been traced.

The documentary "Celine · Dion, the World's Eyes" follows the life and work of Celine · Dion on their world tour in 2008. In that film, Celine · Dion has begun to feel frequent discomfort in her vocal cords and throat.

It was March 2008, Brisbane, the first stop of her tour in Australia, but the show was canceled that night because of throat inflammation. At that time, Celine · Dion's accompanying doctor, Pete · Gracia, gave the official explanation: "She has a respiratory infection, a viral infection, and if she does not rest, it will only worsen her condition, and the condition of her vocal cords will get worse and worse." A week later, Celine · Dion stood on stage again, and it was her first performance on her 40th birthday. She sings on stage, interacts with fans, and doesn't forget to be funny, posing as a bodybuilder to show off her muscles, and she doesn't see anything wrong.

In the following months, at two a.m. the night before the Madison Square Garden show, Pete received a call for help from Celine ·, who said she had been vomiting four times with migraines, a condition that Celine had never experienced before. In that shot, she was thinner than ever, pale, and without a smile. But she still had to stand on the stage and continue the show.

In early November 2008, she came to the hospital again, and she told the doctor that sometimes, before the concert started, her vocal cords would suddenly spasm, so severe that she could not finish a complete sentence. After doing a nasal and throat examination, the doctor found that these parts of Celine · Dion were inflamed, swollen, and full of traces of bacterial infection. Subsequently, on the advice of her doctor, she had to cancel the next two weeks in five cities.

 Celine checks up during the tour. Source: Screenshot of the video "The Eyes of the World".

But even so, throughout 2008, Celine · Dion's "Adventure for Love World Tour" performed a total of 132 performances and broke attendance records at many concert venues.

When there are various physical conditions, how can she ensure that she is in the most normal state on stage? Celine confessed that she would use drugs to sedate herself to ensure that she could swallow, sing, and live a normal life. From 1 mg a day to 10 mg a day and 20 mg a day...... The dosage is stacking, but the timeliness of the drug is always limited.

She described the situation this way: "When you hear the audience shouting 'Celine' and going backstage to change clothes, and the audience is still screaming in the audience, I feel the adrenaline rushing, my heart racing, and the stress doubling. I thought to myself, tonight my dream will come true again, I love it so much. But then, there was another spasm of my vocal cords, and my voice became sharper, and the effect of the medicine had worn off, and it didn't work."

She could only increase the dosage again and again, and at most, she had to take eighty or ninety milligrams of diazepam tablets a day, and this was only one of the medicines.

But the medication did not really relieve any discomfort in the body, on the contrary, the situation got worse. In a recent interview with People magazine, Celine recalled a concert after 2011. Before the performance, she fell into a trance, and the road from the backstage to the stage began to get narrower and narrower, "At that moment, I felt the wall approaching me", she thought she was suffering from low blood sugar, sat on the ground, grabbed a glass of juice and began to drink. When she regained consciousness, she felt that she had only rested for 10 minutes, and was about to get up and walk to the stage again, when the staff around her told her that two hours had passed and the performance had long since ended.

Thinking back to that night, Celine · Dion felt desperate and uneasy, "I was falling, falling, falling."

But even so, she never thought about taking a break or saying goodbye to the stage.

For Celine, spasms of the vocal cords and overdraft of the body have always been a heavy secret. The show never stopped.

She's still the hardest working female star on the planet, not even one — she held 427 regular concerts at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from March 2011 to June 2019. At the same time, she also participated in Billboard's awards ceremony show and became a host on the TV show "Today Show".

During this time, cramps, vomiting, and stiffness continued to occur, but no one could tell her what it was. Every time I went to the doctor, the doctor came to the conclusion that the pressure was too much and I didn't get enough time to relax.

Only those who are very close to her know the secret. Celine · Dion likened this concealment to children playing rollerblading, "They hurt their ankles but they don't want to tell me because I know they're injured and say, take a break, stop roller skating." She explained, "I don't want to stop, I want to stay on stage."

She did stay on stage. In the middle of the concert, she would point the microphone at the audience and let them sing along, and sometimes she would pat the microphone and pretend that something was wrong with the microphone, giving her voice a brief break during the few seconds she was away from the microphone. When she is really uncomfortable, she will claim that she wants to step down and change her clothes.

In the documentary "This Is Me", Celine · Dion recalls this heavy secret, repeating the same sentence over and over again: The show must go on.

Source: "This Is Me"

Climb to the very top of the ladder

Celine · Dion first felt the magic of the stage when she was 5 years old.

She grew up in a large family in Quebec, Canada, where her father was an accordionist and she was the youngest of 14 siblings. Influenced by his father, the family loved music and would often sit around and sing folk songs.

In the summer of the year when he was 5 years old, at the wedding of his brother Michelle, the siblings each prepared a song. That day, Celine · Dion wore a long blue dress decorated with small white flowers and a pair of white gloves, and when it was her turn to sing, she was so nervous that she did not dare to speak out until her mother's hand was on her back and gently but firmly pushed her, "Go, my little daughter, go, it's your turn." She then came to the crowd and sang a ballad called "Mamy Blue" aloud.

The performance that day brought her great joy. She still remembers the light on the ceiling and the feeling that she could almost touch the light and the stars when she sang, "for the first time in my life I know the unforgettable feeling that a singer wants, that she attracts the audience, that she wins applause, that her voice can be heard".

 Celine as a child. Image source network

At the age of 12, her brother Jacques accompanied, her mother Teresa wrote the lyrics, and Celine · Dion completed the recording of a French song called "It's Just a Dream". Later, the brother sent the recorded demo to the famous music agent René · Angele and told him: "If you listen to it, you will call back immediately."

Sure enough, after listening to this demo, Rene asked to see Celine. Celine always remembers that day, her mother dressed her in a lace dress, "It was the first time in our lives, at least my first time, that when I got on the bus and the subway, I felt as if I was going to New York, as if I was going to the end of the world."

Upon meeting Rene, she was asked to sing a short cappella and was given a pencil to "imagine it's a microphone". By the time Celine finished singing, Rene had burst into tears. Immediately, Rene told Celine's mother that he would help Celine become a star in French-speaking Canada within 5 years.

At the time, Rene had just parted ways with his business partner, and with limited funds, they would rent a cheaper evening studio to record, start practicing vocalization and recording at 10 o'clock every night, and leave in a hurry before 6 a.m. René also sold his property and helped Celine release her first French album, La voix du bon Dieu. The title track quickly became a local hit.

Celine's first album. Image source network

Celine interrupted her studies and began to study singing with Rene. In 1982, Celine won the "Best Perforator" award and the "Best Song" gold medal at the Yamaha World Pop Song Festival in Tokyo, and she quickly became popular in French-speaking Canada, when she was only 14 years old.

In Paris and Montreal, people increasingly recognized her on the street and ran to her for autographs. Celine also experienced a real rise to fame at a young age: "That year, I had to cross the Atlantic 20 times to do propaganda work, record TV broadcasts or record new songs. I'm only 15 years old, but I'm used to luxury hotels, expensive fashion boutiques, private jets."

By the age of 18, Celine had released nine French albums, won all the music awards in Canada, and was known to audiences in more regions. In an exclusive interview with television, she wore curly hair and said in French that her dream was to become an international superstar and sing for the rest of her life.

In order to break into the English-language record market, Celine spent two months in "retreat" to concentrate on learning English, and in 1990 she successfully entered the mainstream English-language market with the album "Unison", which critics described as elegant and unpretentious, not seeking to show off, but "elevating ordinary melodies to a higher level".

Young Celine at her own book signing. Image source network

In 1994, 26-year-old Celine decided to marry Rene, who was 26 years older than herself. Before getting married, she told her mother, who "wanted to kill Rene", "I'm not a minor. It's a free country. No one has the right to stop me from loving anyone I want to love."

In the fall of 1997, before the release of the movie "Titanic" directed by James · Cameron, composer James · Horner found Rene and Celine and showed them the lyrics of "My Heart is Eternal", hoping that Celine could sing this track for the movie. They listened to Horner talk about the storyline of the movie and were deeply moved, but Celine said that she didn't want to sing the song, "I like the lyrics, but the melody looks flat". It was Rene who convinced her to audition. Subsequently, in the studio, Celine sang the song "My Heart is Eternal" "effortlessly", she had the flu that day, and her voice sounded unstable, but she felt that there was a very romantic feeling.

In the end, the song took her career to a new level - Celine · Dion became a household name all over the world. "My Heart Is Eternal" drove the "Titanic" soundtrack to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide. The song also won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

Celine wore "Heart of the Ocean" at the Oscars. Image source network

Rolling Stone magazine named Celine · Dion, Maria· Kelly and Whitney · Houston "the three most important singers of the United States'90s." Music critics called Celine "an Olympic athlete in the singing world, for her, there is never the highest mountain, only higher." Celine described herself as "I was standing at the very top of the ladder, my head was in the clouds, and I was looking at the sunset, the stars and the rainbow."

At the same time, she also left the recording studio and performed in different cities around the world, which became her most enjoyable and important job - in 1996, the world's largest performance venue in Europe was almost full, and she also broke the audience record at the Stade de France, becoming the first singer to have an audience of 90,000 every night for two consecutive nights.

"There's no such thing as a mistake on stage, because on stage it's humanity, it's all about connection, all kinds of emotions, you forget the lyrics, you get flustered for a moment, but all of a sudden, the audience starts singing." These moments fascinated her and made her unable to extricate herself.

"Standing on stage is addictive, and I can't live without it," she said.

Celine talks about the meaning of the stage. Source: "This Is Me"

"How can you be stressed?"

In 2008, during Celine ·'s world tour, such an episode occurred.

On the same day, because of vocal cord discomfort, she found a female doctor and told her that her biggest problem at the moment was that there was no way to relax her neck, and the position of the vocal cords on the right side of her neck would be painful, which also caused her vocal cords to be in a tight state all the time, and there was no way to perform vocal exercises. After the examination, the doctor told her that it was because she was mentally and physically stressed, and her vocal cords were not well rested, which caused all kinds of uncomfortable reactions.

At this time, a female nurse standing next to her asked in a joking tone, "How can you be stressed?"

This sentence opened the floodgates of Celine's emotions, and she raised her voice and said, "Those five years of performance in Las Vegas! There are no breaks, no rehearsals, no rookie shows, there is a running track on the stage, you have to run all the time, do very strenuous exercises, new clothes, new shoes, ......."

In fact, the pressure on her is much more than that.

During a performance in March 1999, she felt a hard lump the size of an egg on Rene's neck, and was diagnosed with throat cancer on the same day she was taken to the hospital. Rene took Celine's hand and began to cry, "I need you." He said. Celine said, "I began to feel that the once familiar Rene, the once powerful Rene, is gone."

 Celine and Rene. Image source network

Subsequently, she decided to temporarily retire from the entertainment industry, accompanied Rene for anti-cancer treatment, and gave birth to her eldest son in January 2001, and did not come back until 2003.

In order to live more stably and take care of her husband and children, Celine signed a fixed acting contract with the famous Caesars Palace in Las Vegas - starting from March 25, 2003, Celine will perform nearly 700 performances at Caesars Palace, five times a week, for 40 weeks a year. To that end, Celine and Rene moved with their two-year-old son to a $1.2 million house near Las Vegas, just 27 kilometers to and from work.

For each show in Las Vegas, Celine sings 100 songs in just over 23 minutes. To do this, doctors examine her vocal cords every two to three months to make sure that her "multimillion-dollar throat is making sounds like a Ferrari parked in a casino's VIP parking lot."

 Celine's concert promotional photo is erected in front of Caesars Palace. Image source network

There has never been a singer who has chosen to sing so many times in a year like Celine. Initially, her choice was described by the media as risky. But in fact, her performance has rewritten the rules of the traditional recording and entertainment industry. After four years and eight months, Celine has completed a total of 717 performances at Caesars Palace, earning a whopping $400 million in ticket sales, in addition to $100 million in sponsorships and merchandising. After the contract expired, Celine chose to extend her contract for another two years.

In those years, all people saw was a diva-level female singer's high-quality performances day after day, high box office, and popularity and reputation that never dropped, but in reality, this is the cruelest answer to "how can a woman perfectly balance work and life" -

Celine · Dion said that because of her residency, she rarely appeared in the entertainment industry in those years, and the world tour was an important way for her to return to the public eye, so she only felt "tight, tight, tight". There were many nights when she came home at night and took a shower in the bathroom, with one mouth, no bass, all treble, which made her uneasy and confused.

In addition to this, she has to raise children and fulfill her motherhood. On October 23, 2010, after five miscarriages, Celine · Dion gave birth to twin boys, and during the preparation for conception and childbirth, she completely stopped singing because she was worried that the vibration of the voice would affect the contraction of the uterus. And just four months after giving birth, she is going to reopen a new round of residency at Caesars Hall in Las Vegas.

This round was unlike any other, with Celine working with a 30-member orchestra and only 55 seconds to change costumes between the pieces. Two months before the performance, she began formal rehearsals.

The first rehearsal was at 9 a.m., and everyone thought it was impossible to see Celine so early, but she showed up on time - in the past, like many mothers of newborns, she had not slept a full night, and had to get up every two hours to feed her children, each child had to feed for 25 minutes, and then take a nap in a chair for an hour, and then continue feeding.

Before rehearsals every day, she has to send her eldest son to school, check his homework and the materials needed for class, and then continue to rehearse with a little stuck. So, during the rehearsal, Rene cried when he heard his wife's singing, "I can't believe it, her voice still sounds so good...... I can't believe that a woman who barely sleeps after giving birth to twins can still perform such a high-intensity performance every night. She is so disciplined that you can't help but admire everything she does. 」

But behind all this is Celine · Dion's nerves that have never relaxed. When the eldest son was 7 years old, he lost his comfort rabbit on the way to perform with them, and he cried until the early hours of the morning, and that night, Celine called all the staff she knew to help find her. Early the next morning, someone found the little rabbit and called Celine, hearing the good news, and she couldn't stop crying on the phone. After the twins were born, they sometimes had to take their three children on business trips, and each time they traveled, they sorted out half a pickup truck for the children's luggage alone.

Because of this, Celine ignored her discomfort again and again. Looking back now, she told the host of "Today Show" that when she first felt her body out of control, she should have taken the time to figure it out, but "I had to hide my own things" because, "in front of them, I had to try to be a hero". 

Celine and three children. Source: Instagram

"I have no choice"

On January 14, 2016, Rene died of a recurrence of throat cancer, Celine · Dion wore a black veil on her face, led her three minor sons, and bid farewell to her lover at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Montreal where they got married, and two days later, her brother Daniel ·Dion also died of cancer.

But more than a month later, the thin Celine stood on the stage of Caesars Palace again, and when she sang the second half of the song "Alone", she couldn't cry. In the past, before every performance, Rene and Celine would hold hands and cheer up, and in many concert documentaries, Rene sat behind the mixer and held his cheeks and looked at Celine on the stage. After his death, every time Celine performed at Caesars Palace, she asked for the seats behind the mixer to be vacated in honor of Rene.

In 2019, her new album "Courage" was released, which topped the United States music charts, and the famous "Billboard" magazine called "this is the power of Dion". In the same year, she completed a 52-name concert tour and starred in a romantic drama series "Love Again" for the first time.

Celine · Dion never seems to stop until her body is completely out of control.

On December 9, 2022, Celine · Dion released a video through her social platform, disclosing the news that she was suffering from stiffness, postponing and canceling all tour plans for 2023 and 2024.

The video was recorded at her home, where she wears a black gown with gold earrings and a necklace. "I can only sing, it's what I've done in my life, it's my favorite thing, and I miss the days when I could sing, standing on stage and performing for everyone," she said. I've always been 100 per cent committed to performing, but my current physical condition doesn't allow me to put on a perfect performance for everyone, so I have no choice but to concentrate on my health at the moment."

 Celine · Dion on the day of the announcement of her illness.

Later, in an interview with France Vogue, she confessed her despair after her diagnosis: "I ask myself: Why me? Why is this happening? What did I do? Is it my fault?"

In the past, in the days when she was able to control herself, she was able to record three songs a night, and over the years, she has also maintained her figure, wearing size 2 clothes, and was once so thin that there were rumors that she had anorexia. She has been singing since she was 12 years old, and she is most jealous of the rock singers who can smoke and sing at the bar, while she herself can only drink water in the bar and sleep enough for 12 hours a day to maintain her strength.

Gao Xiaosong once recorded a song for Celine in LA, and Celine told him: "You say Good I can't do it, you say Excellent I can't do it yet, until you can't speak, looking at you speechless, I feel perfect."

But now, five days a week, she has to go through physical rehabilitation, interspersed with medication, immunotherapy, sound therapy, working her toes, knees, calves, fingers. Her attending physician quipped that it had become a grueling full-time job for Celine.

It's just that it didn't make her condition better. At home, there are medicine bottles of various colors by the sink in the bathroom, and she often has difficulty standing steadily, feeling pain in joints and nerves, and sometimes even unable to walk on her own.

She hadn't sung in almost two years. In the documentary, she tried to show director Erin that the timbre of her current singing is completely different from the past, she sang a few words at random, and then cried aggrievedly, "I am very sad to hear such a voice."

What's even more cruel is that her condition does not allow for such violent mood swings, whether it be sadness or joy - the severe spasm episode recorded on camera is precisely because of the emotional ups and downs.

After a long recovery, Celine · Dion finally decided to go into the studio and give it a try. When the demo came out, she listened to the first bar, and said "I don't like it", and after that, she stood up angrily, and despite hitting the corner of the table when she got up, she walked to the microphone and wanted to record it again.

She finally found her state of satisfaction, and after singing, she held a cup of hot drink and waved her arms relaxedly. After leaving the studio, she went to the massage room next door, but as soon as she sat on the edge of the bed, her feet began to twitch - spasms.

When everything calmed down, the therapist explained to Celine · Dion that the spasms had something to do with her being too happy that night. Celine was subconsciously surprised and saddened, because it meant that the disease had not only robbed her of control over her voice and body, but also robbed her of her emotions and emotions.

Source: "This Is Me"

apple tree

Many years ago, in an interview, Celine · Dion said that her happiest time as a singer was not when she was in the spotlight, nor when the audience cheered and applauded, but when she auditioned before every performance - she could stand under the stage and dance with the microphone at will, she could spin the famous songs imitating idols on the stage barefoot, she could improvise a rap to the guitarist and bass, and try some songs that had never been sung.

For her, this moment is as relaxing and enjoyable as visiting Walmart. She is no longer a dazzling singer, just an ordinary person who likes to sing.

In the opinion of documentary director Eileen, the willingness to present the scene of her convulsive seizure in front of the public is also a signal from Celine ·, "She is so relaxed, so honest, willing to live like an ordinary person" - before all the filming work began, Celine once told her that never set limits, do not ask yourself if these shots can be filmed, "If you do this, you will really destroy me."

Because, Celine · Dion never thought of compromise.

During the shooting, Irene recorded such a scene - by the pool, Celine wore beautiful green pajamas, listening to the music of the opera artist Maria ·. Maria · Callas is Celine and Rene's favorite musician. In the documentary, Celine shows a gemstone necklace given to her by Rene, whose former owner is none other than Maria ·, and Rene hopes that the power of her idol will always accompany his wife. Maria also had a beautiful and recognizable voice, but in her later years, her voice deteriorated and could not be recovered, and when her singing career came to an end, Maria died of illness soon after.

But Celine · Dion is not Maria · Callas, she never wants to give up, "I still think I can continue to sing and dance, I can always find several solutions, this is me, if I can't run, I can walk, if I can't walk, I climb, but I will never stop." I'm not going to stop."

She was so determined, but she was also always vaguely uneasy. She compares herself to an apple tree, "People are lining up, I give them the best apples," and, "I have to wipe them before I give them, and they all leave with a basket of apples."

But gradually, "my branches began to droop and become crooked, and those branches began to produce fewer apples, but there were still so many people in line...... I want to sing with joy, to sing without thinking, and I want to sing without hindrance. Maybe I can sing other genres, but then they have to choose whether they want to continue to like me or not."

On June 21, 2024, the documentary "This Is Me: Celine · Dion" was launched on Amazon. At the premiere of the documentary, she received handwritten letters from fans, in which one fan wrote word for word: "We are waiting for that apple tree, not an apple."

Source: "This Is Me"

Resources:

1. Documentary "This Is Me Celine ·Dion"

2. Documentary "The Eyes of the World"

3. Documentary "Say Love World Tour Full Record"

4.《MY STORY, MY DREAM 》, Céline Dion

5.Céline Dion Says Sons Fuel Her to Fight Stiff-Person Syndrome (Exclusive), People

6.People are jealous, The Guardian

7.A Titanic moment: how Céline Dion became the fashion icon 2017 needs,The Guardian

8.Céline Dion Biopic 'The Power of Love' in the Works From Gaumont,Variety

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