Celine Dion Took Near-Lethal Amounts of Valium While Battling Stiff-Person Syndrome

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Celine Dion is opening up about her battle with Stiff-Person Syndrome. Back in December 2022, the 56-year-old “All By Myself” singer revealed that she was diagnosed with the rare and incurable neurological disorder that causes muscle stiffness and painful spasms, double vision and impaired mobility.

In her first televised interview that aired on NBC on Tuesday night (June 11), Celine revealed that during the decade of testing it took for doctors to correctly diagnose her, she became highly dependent on the relief provided by increasingly near-lethal amounts of Valium. Keep reading to find out more…After originally being prescribed 20 milligrams of Valium, Celine eventually started taking 90 milligrams on some days.

Adult doses of Valium typically range from 2 to 10 milligrams. “90 milligrams of Valium can kill you. You can stop breathing,” Celine explained. “And at one point, the thing is that my body got used to it at 20 and 30 and 40 [milligrams], until it went up.

And I needed that. It was relaxing my whole body. For two weeks, for a month, the show would go on…but then you get used to [and] it doesn’t work anymore.” “I did not know, honestly, that it could kill me.