Rumors that Dion would sing during the final of the European Song Contest in Swiss Basel this spring were circulating for several months. The Eurovision chief Moritz Stadler said in interviews that they were working on getting her there – a booking that seemed reasonable since Dion won the competition on behalf of the Alpine nation in 1988.
Now journalist Eric Bureau says that the star was indeed on site in Basel, but that an illness prevented the performance, where she would have sung the song "Ne partez pas sans moi".
When she then arrived, she had an attack that prevented her from singing. She then left immediately with a private plane to Las Vegas, he says to Le Parisien.
Instead, she participated in the broadcast via a digital greeting.
Dion suffers from the neurological disease stiff person syndrome, which causes involuntary muscle contractions.
