Despite battling the disease for 17 years, the singer continued to perform up until 2022, when she shared her diagnosis with the world and canceled all upcoming shows. In another part of her NBC interview, the musician described what it’s like to sing with the condition, and she said it feels like ‘somebody is strangling her.’ ‘It’s like somebody is strangling you,’ she told Hoda. ‘It’s like somebody is pushing your larynx/pharynx.’ She added that it’s hard for her to control her pitch due to ‘spasms.’ And it doesn’t only affect her voice, as she continued, ‘[The spams] can also be in the abdominal, can be in the spine, can be in the ribs.
