Celine Dion triumphs as Paris comeback concerts earn staggering $125M after excruciating health battle

Celine Dion's comeback residency in Paris has proven a thunderous commercial triumph, earning an eyewatering $125.5 million.

The 58-year-old announced her diagnosis with the rare and debilitating stiff person syndrome in 2022 and canceled her planned tour the following year.

During her time away from the limelight, she underwent treatment successfully enough that she was able to return to the stage for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

She then resumed full concerts last month, playing 16 shows in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre from September 12 through October 17.

Now it has emerged she was able to sell a staggering 539,000 tickets for her shows at the Plenitude Arena, according to a report in Billboard.

The Daily Mail has contacted Dion's representatives for comment. 

News of her latest success broke after she was seen exiting her Paris hotel, the Royal Monceau in the 8th arrondissement, with a formidable 29 suitcases in tow.

Staff bustled around her, hauling her luggage into her van as she affectionately wrapped her miniscule apricot poodle Madison in her coat.

She was accompanied by her twin sons Nelson and Eddy, 15, whom she shared with her late husband and svengali Rene Angelil. 

Angelil and Dion, who were married from 1994 until his death of throat cancer in 2016 at the age of 73, also welcomed a son called Rene-Charles, 25. 

During her latest concert run, Dion went viral for singing and dancing barefoot atop a car outside her hotel for a gathering throng of adoring fans.

More than 30,000 people attended Dion's last show, where over the course of her run she sold more tickets than any other artist in the history of the Plenitude Arena.

She was initially meant to play 10 concerts there, but her scheduled engagement was ultimately extended to include six more performances. 

One of her shows was attended by French president Emmanuel Macron, in a move that provoked controversy given the riots then roiling the country. 

Dion will return to the Plenitude Arena, which was known as the Paris La Defense Arena until this summer, for another set of 10 dates next May.

During her final concert this month, Dion, draped in custom Chanel, treated the crowd to a sampling of her English and French repertoire, reprising hits such as My Heart Will Go On, The Power of Love, S'il suffisait d'aimer and Encore un soir.

'This beautiful adventure finishes tonight,' she said onstage. 'But we'll meet again next May. In the meantime, believe in yourselves and hold on to your dreams!' 

In a documentary chronicling her struggle with stiff person syndrome, Dion revealed her sons had learned to use 'panic buttons' during 'crisis' drills at home.

When she would suffer an episode, she would experience searing physical agony and her body would go rigid, she shared in the film I Am: Celine Dion.

The All By Myself songstress was shown sobbing over her spiraling health crisis, even as she expressed her determination to eventually sing again.

'My voice is the conductor of my life,' the Tell Him hitmaker explained. 'When your voice brings you joy, you're the best of yourself.' 

In the summer of 2024, the year the documentary was released, she left fans around the world overcome with emotion by stepping back into the spotlight to sing in front of the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

Dion, who hails from Quebec and has always sung in both French and English, regaled the viewers with a rendition of the Edith Piaf classic L'Hymne a l'amour.