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How Celine Dion fought every day to be fit to open the Olympics: Star endured gruelling therapy for crippling and incurable Stiff Person Syndrome that 'feels like someone is strangling you'
Celine Dion's triumphant return to the stage at Friday night's opening ceremony in Paris brings to an end wide-spread fears that her incurable autoimmune disease would end her career.
No wonder the French were so desperate to have her in Paris on Friday night, dressed in Dior, belting out the iconic Gallic song ‘La Vie En Rose’ in a voice millions of fans feared they would never hear again. Ongoing speculation about Dion’s return to the stage reached fever pitch earlier this week after she was spotted in Paris, staying at the same hotel as Lady Gaga, the Royal Monceau near the Champs-Elysées. The pair, it was said, would be duetting together at Friday night’s glittering Olympic floating opening ceremony on the Seine, singing a song by Edith Piaf which has come to epitomise French culture with its lyrics about the beauty of life.
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