During an interview granted to Gala.fr, Elisabeth Reynaud who dedicated a book to Celine Dion returned to the last difficult months of the life of René Angelil, who died of cancer on January 14, 2016. Six years later day for day, immersed in the last hours of the great love of the singer.
Six years ago, on January 14, 2016, René Angelil died at the age of 73 from throat cancer. A loss that plunged his wife Celine Dion into great distress, as recounted by Elisabeth Reynaud, author of the book Celine Dion – heart icon and woman, published by Larousse, at Gala.fr. She agreed to come back to the last complicated months of the couple who stood together against the disease. Indeed, the singer who is now thinner than ever has shown enormous courage to overcome this ordeal and fulfill the promise she made to her husband on his deathbed.
Thus, Elisabeth Reynaud does not hide that René Angelil was only shadow of himself before his death. “He was bloated, had no tongue, he could no longer eat, was blind and deaf and it was Céline who fed him by tube,” she assures us, taking excerpts from her book. And paying tribute to Celine Dion who divided her time between her fans and her man. “Céline was going on stage in glitter and the next hour she was feeding René by tube while he was dying and it lasted for months.“
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Celine Dion: “René dictated his funeral”
We all remember Celine Dion dressed in black, parading with her children behind René Angelil’s coffin. This moment had been planned, written. “René told himself that he would be Céline’s manager until the end, to organize his own funeral,” says Elisabeth Reynaud during our interview. A beautiful proof of love from a man to his wife.
The full interview with Elisabeth Reynaud will be available on Gala.fr this Sunday, February 28.
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