Prime Video’s latest documentary I Am: Celine Dion is a raw depiction of The Power of Love singer’s debilitating battle with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS). The film’s director, Irene Taylor, gets candid about her experience filming the project and what it was like witnessing one of Dion’s medical emergencies firsthand. Celine Dion’s face is frozen in a harrowing grimace.
Her skin looks like it is being viciously pulled tight, her white teeth are bared and grinding against each other and her eyes are wide and wild showing an unholy combination of sharp pain and torturous fear. Celine Dion cannot move. It begins with a small tingle in her feet.
Within minutes her whole body locks and seizes up. Her muscles are yanked stiff and spasming in electric bolts of unbearable pain. She is sobbing and her beautiful voice with its incredible range and deep emotional power has been reduced to nothing more than wretched grunts of agony.
This alarming seizure is captured in excruciating and distressing detail in the new documentary I Am: Celine Dion, which is streaming on Prime Video. We’ve seen stars and celebrities in all manner of unflattering circumstances, but we’ve never seen anything like this before..
