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Celine Dion looked in great spirits as she waved to fans while leaving the Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris on Monday.
The superstar, 58, made her first public appearance in two years on Friday ahead of her stage comeback.
And waving goodbye to fans, Celine smiled as she kept it stylish in a brown crocodile leather jacket and black culottes.
She paired the look with black leather heeled boots and shades.
Celine is gearing up for her stage comeback three years after cancelling her world tour due to a debilitating battle with stiff person syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological disorder causing severe muscle stiffness and painful spasms.
In the past six years, she has performed only once, and she laid bare the brutality of the condition in her 2024 documentary, I Am: Celine Dion.
Her last public appearance came in the same year when she sang at an Elie Saab fashion event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but she has been spotted in the crowd at a Paul McCartney and a Coldplay concert since then.
In March she announced her return to the stage for a ten-date residency in Paris beginning this autumn. Due to overwhelming demand, Celine has extended her run to include a further 16 performances from this September through to May 2027.
Celine opened up to Harper's Bazaar this month about how she has been preparing for the shows, along with the insecurities she has been overcoming since her diagnosis.
The singer has been preparing for her shows with a rigorous workout schedule, which consists of 90-minute pilates sessions three times a week along with twice-weekly ballet classes with a local company.
'It is a progressive condition. I don’t like to say "disease." Disease makes you go like this,' she said, scrunching her nose and saying, '"Kevin, you’re such a disease".'
The interview was conducted at a recording studio at the Palms Casino Resort, a room decked out with an array of exercise equipment including weights, a treadmill, a reformer machine and a ballet barre Dion was stretching at.
Following years of symptoms, Celine was diagnosed with SPS in 2022 after she faced a flare-up in 2020, at the same time as the start of the pandemic.
For three years she isolated from fans, partly motivated by fears her fans would presume she was living a happy, full life yet still cancelling shows. She also developed an appreciation for nature during this time.
