It had been months since anyone had seen Celine Dion in the flesh, she who suffers from muscle spasms at the heart of all the craziest rumours, some going so far as to speak of paralysis. And then, at the end of January, Paris Match released never-before-seen photos of the star at her home in Las Vegas, on her two legs, but with a small face and gray hair. Around her, an omerta settled as to her real state of health. But a relative affirms that we should not be alarmed and that the diva is preparing her grand come back.
This is indeed what Hugo Damas reports to the Quebec newspaper The Press, in a post published on February 1. He claims that Celine Dion is continuing her recovery in Las Vegas – where she would have moved into a new house – and that her team is working to resume the rest of the world tour as planned. Courage World Tour, starting May 25 in Birmingham, England; the North American dates postponed by the pandemic, on the other hand, are purely and simply canceled. “It’s official that she’s going to sing again, I’m sure. His fans can be reassured“, specifies a source of the Dion clan on condition of anonymity. “You should know that the people who work closely with Celine Dion sign confidentiality agreements that prevent them from talking to journalists“, specifies for his part the reporter.
Hugo Damas, who points out that in René Angélil’s time, communication around Céline’s health would have been handled differently, was also able to speak with another source close to the singer. “The stuff that came out in France is extreme speculation, unless they know things that I don’t know myself.“, specifies this one. A way of tackling, in particular, the grandiloquent declarations made by Matthieu Delormeau who affirmed without batting an eyelid that Celine Dion would be paranoid to the point of hearing the voice of her late husband and that she would consume antidepressants!The columnist did not specify the origin of his information when I contacted him on Monday (…) Many assertions, few facts“, underlines the journalist.
Hugo Damas confirms, however, that around Celine Dion it is “the omerta that reigns“especially with Team Céline, the team in charge of its communication on social networks. The latter, for example, have done nothing to “dispel rumors of fibromyalgia or ‘small fiber neuropathy’, which would bed Celine for the next two years“, writes the journalist. Ditto with the record company of the star or its representatives, who keep an embarrassing silence.