Famous person Céline Dion is making a giant splash along with her latest visits to Canadian hockey groups, with the newest fortunate membership being the Edmonton Oilers.
The icon was seen in a video posted over the weekend by the Oilers from once they not too long ago confronted off towards the Vegas Golden Knights.
The uncommon public outing comes as Dion offers with stiff-person syndrome, an incurable neurological dysfunction that causes progressive muscle rigidity and spasms.
The Quebec chanteuse has cancelled exhibits and has made solely a handful of appearances since she revealed her prognosis in December 2022. On the time, she mentioned the illness doesn’t permit her “to sing the way in which I’m used to.”
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Within the Oilers’ video, Dion has left winger Zachary Hyman laughing along with her impersonation of hockey gamers.
“It’s thrilling to satisfy these large guys, identical to, on flat footwear. I can’t think about them up on skates with all of the tools going like,” she provides as she crouches down right into a face off place, pretending to carry a hockey stick.
It’s the second time in latest months that Dion has met with hockey groups from her house nation whereas they had been in Las Vegas.
Dion first visited the Montreal Canadiens along with her sons kids — René-Charles and twins Nelson and Eddy — final November. She shared the expertise on social media, saying that she and her boys had “such a enjoyable time” assembly Habs within the locker room.
The Edmonton Oilers received fortunate with a go to from the one and solely Céline Dion.
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The legendary singer additionally made a shock on-stage look on the Grammy Awards in early February. Donning a pale pink robe, Dion gave a teary and heartfelt message of because of the gang earlier than she introduced Taylor Swift’s identify as winner of Album of the 12 months.
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Dion additionally not too long ago introduced she’s getting set to launch a documentary, titled I Am: Céline Dion, that can chronicle her first yr of dwelling with stiff-person syndrome.
— with information from World’s Michelle Butterfield
