CNN —Céline Dion insisted that graphic footage of herself having a violent muscle spasm should stay in a new documentary about her life, the film’s director has said.
In an interview with Variety, Irene Taylor, the director of “I Am: Céline Dion,” said the legendary singer insisted on keeping the “intensely revealing” moment in the final cut.
Upon being shown the footage, “the very first thing she said was, ‘I think this film can help me,’” according to Taylor.
Only minutes before, Dion had finished two days of recording for the first time in four years.
Despite her discomfort and uncertainty about filming the incident, Taylor told Variety that she held on to her boom mic and kept filming.
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