Celine Dion admitted she ended up taking a near-fatal amount of valium to deal with the pain amid her health battle with Stiff-Person Syndrome.
During an interview with NBC News’ Hoda Kotb, the 56-year-old singer opened up about being prescribed the drug so she could continue to perform while dealing with the debilitating symptoms with the autoimmune neurological disorder, which she said started as early as 2008, the New York Post reported.
“We tried a lot of things. Trying a lot of things when you don’t know what you have can kill you,” Dion said. “I did not know, honestly, that it could kill me.”
“Ninety milligrams of Valium can kill you,” she added. “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.”
“But for how long?” Dion…
