Celine Dion Took Near-Lethal Doses of Valium Amid Health Struggle

Celine Dion says one of many more durable elements of her Stiff-Individual Syndrome battle consists of keeping off habit to the damaging doses of Valium she was taking to proceed performing.

The singer opened up about her well being journey throughout an interview with NBC’s Hoda Kotb … revealing she was prescribed the drug as a approach to deal with her uncommon neurological dysfunction.

Valium, or the generic diazepam, is used to deal with nervousness, muscle spasms and twitches — which she experiences with SPS — so, she took the drug, actually, to make sure her stay reveals might go on … however that ultimately required extraordinarily excessive doses.

The difficulty, as Celine put it, is her physique constructed up a tolerance, and at one level, she was taking 90 milligrams per day.

What Celine did not understand? She was taking a near-lethal quantity of the medicine.

She added, “Ninety milligrams of Valium can kill you. You can stop breathing. 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.”

In a separate interview with People, Celine — who first started scuffling with early signs of SPS in 2008 — stated she didn’t query the remedy as she was not a medical skilled.

She continued … “I did not understand that I could have gone to bed and stopped breathing. And you learn — you learn through your mistakes.”

Because the Grammy winner advised Hoda, she stopped taking Valium throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, since she was now not performing. Nonetheless, Celine defined she did not cease chilly turkey … as she wanted the assistance of docs to soundly wean off the meds.

It was at this level her SPS signs bought worse … as Celine broke a number of ribs amid spasms and suffered reminiscence loss — prompting her to share her diagnosis with the world in December 2022.