{"id":13583,"date":"2023-08-11T21:31:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2023-08-11T21:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:31:39","slug":"shania-twain-hopes-to-connect-with-celine-dion-over-their-illnesses-its-gotta-be-so-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/shania-twain-hopes-to-connect-with-celine-dion-over-their-illnesses-its-gotta-be-so-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Shania Twain hopes to \u2018Connect\u2019 with Celine Dion over their Illnesses: \u2018It\u2019s Gotta Be So Difficult\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shania Twain\u00a0wants to be there for\u00a0Celine Dion\u00a0as she battles with stiff-person syndrome. \u201cI hope to be able to connect with her at some point,\u201d Twain, 57, said in an interview with\u00a0Billboard\u00a0published on Thursday, August 10. \u201cI think it\u2019s gotta be so difficult, and I know \u2014 only speaking from my experience \u2014 how horrifying it is to think that something is preventing you from singing, or interfering with that joy in your life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I just pray that she is able to overcome it and she will be up there [on stage] singing for us all again.\u201d Twain confessed she was \u201csuch a fan\u201d of Dion, 55. \u201cShe\u2019s a one-of-a-kind, extraordinary vocalist and entertainer,\u201d she gushed. In December 2022, Dion revealed she was suffering from the \u201crare condition\u201d of\u00a0stiff-person syndrome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0Mayo Clinic, \u201cstiff-man syndrome\u201d \u2014 also known as \u201cMoersch-Woltman syndrome\u201d \u2014 \u201cis a rare disorder of motor function characterized by involuntary stiffness of axial muscles and superimposed painful muscle spasms, which are often induced by startle or emotional stimuli.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shania Twain\u00a0wants to be there for\u00a0Celine Dion\u00a0as she battles with stiff-person syndrome. \u201cI hope to be able to connect with her at some point,\u201d Twain, 57, said in an interview with\u00a0Billboard\u00a0published on Thursday, August 10. \u201cI think it\u2019s gotta be so difficult, and I know \u2014 only speaking from my experience \u2014 how horrifying it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13585,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/13585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}