Celine Dion’s Career and Health Battle Will Be Subject of New Documentary

Brittany Spanos
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Celine Dion - Credit: ALICE CHICHE/AFP/Getty Images
Celine Dion - Credit: ALICE CHICHE/AFP/Getty Images

Celine Dion’s life, legacy, and battle with stiff-person syndrome will be explored in a new documentary titled I Am: Celine Dion. Amazon MGM acquired the film, which will be released on Prime.

Helmed by Peabody and Emmy-winning director Irene Taylor, the new documentary was filmed over the course of a year. It will offer a rare glimpse into her personal life, taking viewers into the recording studio and her home. While exploring Dion’s massive career and journey to the top, it will also offer the first portrait of the singer’s sudden health issues that have left her future as a performer uncertain.

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“This last couple of years has been such a challenge for me, the journey from discovering my condition to learning how to live with and manage it, but not to let it define me,” Celine Dion said in a statement. “As the road to resuming my performing career continues, I have realized how much I have missed it, of being able to see my fans.  During this absence, I decided I wanted to document this part of my life, to try to raise awareness of this little-known condition, to help others who share this diagnosis.”

A release date has yet to be announced.

Dion’s last decade has been fraught. Both her husband and her brother died within two days of each other in January 2016. In 2018, she announced the end of her long-running Las Vegas residency. A year later, she dropped Courage, her first English-language album in six years. It debuted at Number One and preceded the Courage World Tour, which was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

She was planning on returning to Las Vegas in 2022 as well as finishing the Courage World Tour when she suddenly canceled all dates due to ongoing muscle spasms. In December 2022, Dion revealed that she had been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects one in a million people.

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