While her state of health upsets the hearts of her admirers, the day after the postponement of her tour, Public immerses herself in the beginnings of Celine Dion’s descent into hell. If the death of the love of her life is the reason for her pain, biographer Elisabeth Reynaud reveals that her son may have played a role in her depression.
five years later the disappearance of René Angélil, Celine Dion is struggling to regain her energy. Upset, the singer, of a thinness to frighten, is in agony since the love of his life breathed his last. “She hasn’t grieved yet and never will”, confides Elisabeth Reynaud, the writer behind the book Céline Dion, icon and woman of heart, published by Larousse editions. After more than forty years of career, the star had never taken to the stages of the world without the support of the one who “has instilled in him, throughout his life, the strength to take up the craziest challenges”, writing Public.
And if René Angélil watched over his protege throughout his life, “he will also watch her until her last breath doing the show in Vegas, live from her bed, whispering comments in her ear”, the mentor is no more. Unable to travel the world without her husband and children, Celine Dion then asked René-Charles Angélil to take over the reins of her career. “She wanted René-Charles to take her father’s place as manager, he gave him a definite no“, says the author. A decision that “would have weakened the star even more”.
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Celine Dion devastated by illness
Over thirty years ago, Celine Dion plunged into a deep silence, time to find your lost voice at the start of the Unison Tour in Quebec. If she could go through this ordeal with the support of her husband, this time, it’s alone, that she will have to “to mobilize all one’s strength” for fight disease. While her communications teams claimed that Celine Dion could not perform her tour due to muscle spasms, it would actually be reached neuropathy, cause of “Severe burns and intense pain in the feet and hands, sensation of electric shocks going through your body, accelerated heartbeat, extreme weakness…”, details Public.
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