Derek Hough, Celine Dion. Getty Photographs (2)
Derek Hough had a bittersweet expertise watching Céline Dion’s I Am: Céline Dion documentary after spouse Hayley Erbert’s personal well being struggles.
“The documentary was extremely highly effective, displaying Celine’s struggles with SPS but in addition her quirky and enjoyable aspect,” Hough, 39, wrote through Instagram on Thursday, June 27, revealing he and Erbert, 29, watched the Prime Video doc the night time earlier than.
The Dancing With the Stars choose defined that “a really troublesome scene” to look at was when Dion, 56, had a SPS (stiff individual syndrome) seizure “play out in actual time” on the massive display screen.
“It was so arduous to look at seeing her in ache like that,” Hough wrote, noting, “It additionally jogged my memory of Hayley’s seizure on the aspect of the stage a number of months in the past. I might barely re-watch.”
Erbert was identified with a cranial hematoma from a burst blood vessel in December 2023 which required emergency craniectomy to alleviate the strain on her mind.
As soon as Erbert had recovered, she was given the OK to renew dancing alongside her husband on their Symphony of Dance Tour in April.
“I DID IT! This tour reignited many components of me which were dim for thus lengthy,” Erbert wrote through Instagram final month after getting again on stage. “So, for that, I can not thank everybody who got here out to help us on this wild journey sufficient. I’m so grateful to nonetheless be right here, with you all, doing what I really like. Thanks, thanks, thanks 
Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert captivated audiences with their chemistry nicely earlier than they began courting. Hough first related with Erbert after she was solid as a dancers in his and sister Julianne Hough’s Transfer Dwell Tour in 2014. By July 2015, they had been a pair. The couple carried out collectively as a part of Derek’s fall 2021 […]
Dion has been on an analogous, however longer, well being journey that has saved her from performing. The Grammy winner introduced in December 2022 that she was identified with the uncommon neurological dysfunction referred to as stiff individual syndrome. The sickness induced her to have “spasms” that affected her vocal cords.
Whereas she realized to navigate her dysfunction, Dion needed to cancel her tour for greater than a yr. In her I Am: Céline Dion documentary, the singer paperwork her ups and downs as she continues to work towards getting again on stage.
“I miss it a lot. The folks. I miss them,” she says at one level. “If I can’t run, I’ll stroll. If I can’t stroll, I’ll crawl. And I gained’t cease.”
Pierre Suu/Getty Photographs Céline Dion is sharing her stiff individual syndrome battle with the world. The Grammy winner, 56, introduced in a January assertion that she would “elevate consciousness” concerning the “little-known” neurological dysfunction in a documentary titled I Am: Céline Dion. The announcement got here after Dion revealed her prognosis in December 2022. “I’ve been […]
Hough, who met Dion years previous to her prognosis, gushed over the musician’s energy after seeing her doc.
“Celine is an absolute legend, with a novel and one in a billion voice,” he wrote on Thursday. “We’re so blessed to witness her expertise in our lifetime. I pray she heals and returns to the stage she loves a lot.”
Hough referred to as Dion a “firecracker” and shared a video of him and Erbert dancing together with her after their meet and greet.
I Am: Céline Dion is presently streaming on Prime Video.
