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Crippled, crying and convulsing in agony, Celine Dion's illness is unwatchably cruel. But, says KENNEDY, hidden in this new documentary is a message so devastating once you realize it you'll howl in misery too


In 'I Am: Celine Dion' we see the icon diminished, holed up amid Las Vegas splendor, crippled by agony, sustained by boatloads of Valium, literally seizing, weeping - shrieking - on camera.

In 'I Am: Celine Dion' we see the icon diminished, holed up amid Las Vegas splendor, crippled by agony, sustained by boatloads of Valium, literally seizing, weeping – shrieking – on camera. 'The lying is too heavy,' she says, revealing how she's secretly battled SPS for nearly two decades, concocting excuses and ruses for cancelled shows – a sinus infection, a hearing problem – or putting the microphone to the audience when she couldn't get the words out, and taking scores of pills a day. In 'I Am: Celine Dion' we see the icon diminished, holed up amid Las Vegas splendor, crippled by agony, sustained by boatloads of Valium, literally seizing, weeping - shrieking - on camera.

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