“She’s perfection at its finest.”
The day he died, she honored Adhemar at her Las Vegas residency.
“My dad was, and still is, my number one fan,“she told the audience.
The following year, she spoke of her grief withLarry King.
“Even though if you expect it, you’re free to never be prepared for it.”
Celine has continued to celebrate her father over the years.
And in 2018, she shared a sweetInstagrambirthday post featuring a picture of her hugging her dad.
“Papa, you would have been 95 years old today,” she wrote.
“I think of you and I love you.”
In 2020, Celine’s mother, Therese Tanguay-Dion, died at the age of 92 of Alzheimer’s.
The night of her mother’s death, Celine spoke of Therese at a concert.
“I must admit, I’m a little shaky today,“she said to the crowd.
They married in 1994, even though her mother did not approve of the union.
“It was not the person that she wanted for me,” Dion told"The Sunday Project.
““And I don’t blame her…
I said mum, I really love him.
It hurts inside.”
Angelil was first diagnosed with cancer in 1998, and after receiving treatment, the cancer returned in 2013.
“For three years my husband did not have a sip of water and food.
He was eating through a tube,” she recalled.
“I wanted him to leave in peace, I wanted him to feel so light and no worries.
He had a little heart attack, it’s so quick, he didn’t even feel anything.
I thought that he was like liberated from his pain.”
As reported byPeople, she told the crowd, “We were one.
And nothing has changed, we will always be one.”
Daniel, the father of two daughters, had been diagnosed with brain, throat, and tongue cancer.
He died on January 16, 2016, which would have been Angelil’s 74thbirthday.
“Rene escorted my brother,” she toldPeoplelater that year.
“It was perfect.”
Celine also spoke of how she comforted her 89-year-old mother amid the loss.
“I said, ‘You know what Mom?
… You took his hand from the beginning to the end,'” she recalled to People.
Celine Dion lost both her husband and her brother to cancer within days of each other.
That same year, her brother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer.
Like Celine, Liette has suffered a great deal of personal tragedy.
In 1993, Liette’s daughterKarine, who had cystic fibrosis, died when she was just 16.
Dion and Karine were incredibly close, and Karine died in Celine’s arms.
The vocal cord issue was due to a viral infection for which vocal rest was prescribed.
In 2018, Dion once again had to cancel several shows due to issues with her voice.
Two months later, Dion was back on stage where she was greeted with a standing ovation.
But the road to motherhood was a rocky one for Dion, wrought with frustration and disappointment.
It took six years of trying to conceive before Dion turned to IVF treatments.
Dion opened up about her miscarriage onOprah, with a very pragmatic attitude.
She shared that she and her husband were still trying and in the midst of their fifth attempt.
Finally, after six rounds of IVF treatments, Dion gave birth to fraternal twins Nelson and Eddy.
It is my most amazing reward.”
In May of 2023,Celine made the decision to cancel her Courage World Tour datesthrough 2024.
In July 2023, Celine’s sister Claudette Dion gave an update on her sister’s condition.
Her fans can certainly attest to that.
