close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines of the weekend Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Celine Dion admits singing has not been easy for her, since getting diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS). During a recent sit-down with "The Today Show" host Hoda Kotb, Dion discussed what her life has been like living with the rare neurological disorder and the different ways the disease has affected her body, including her voice.
"It’s like somebody is strangling you. It’s like somebody is pushing your larynx/pharynx this way," the performer told Kotb, while pushing her throat back with her hand to demonstrate. Dion went on to demonstrate what her voice sounds like when she tries to sing, speaking in a higher-pitched voice.
"It was like talking like that, and you cannot go high or lower," she said. "It gets into a spasm." Celine Dion described to "Today" host Hoda Kotb what it feels like to sing with Stiff Person Syndrome.
(Francis Specker/CBS via Getty Images) CELINE DION HOPES FOR 'A MIRACLE' TO CURE STIFF PERSON SYNDROME The "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" singer first announced her diagnosis in December 2022, leading her to cancel her "Courage World Tour" and her Las Vegas residency in 2021. SPS is defined by the Cleveland Clinic as "a rare autoimmune movement disorder that affects the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). People with this condition first experience a stiffening of the muscles of their trunk fo.