Shania Twain wants to be there for Celine Dion as she battles with stiff-person syndrome. “I hope to be able to connect with her at some point,” Twain, 57, said in an interview with Billboard published on Thursday, August 10. “I think it’s gotta be so difficult, and I know — only speaking from my experience — how horrifying it is to think that something is preventing you from singing, or interfering with that joy in your life.
So I just pray that she is able to overcome it and she will be up there [on stage] singing for us all again.” Twain confessed she was “such a fan” of Dion, 55. “She’s a one-of-a-kind, extraordinary vocalist and entertainer,” she gushed. In December 2022, Dion revealed she was suffering from the “rare condition” of stiff-person syndrome.
According to Mayo Clinic, “stiff-man syndrome” — also known as “Moersch-Woltman syndrome” — “is a rare disorder of motor function characterized by involuntary stiffness of axial muscles and superimposed painful muscle spasms, which are often induced by startle or emotional stimuli.”