little by little day by day
you're rene you've been a wonderful husband of 21 years he's such a kind loving man yes he died in
january and he had throat cancer and then your brother daniel died two days after of cancer
of cancer my father died of cancer last week we lost the brother-in-law of cancer and so i have
a sister that's battling cancer really she's like yeah throat cancer she's about 89 pounds right now
so so you have been hit hard by this disease yeah very very hard yeah pretty hard
when i faced the death of my husband my my manager my my best friend and my partner
even though you expected you you're never ready for it the last two years i've been extremely
like him difficult i saw him die a little bit more every day and when he did last wishes i said you
know what i'm going to do my wish list as well so we both took a year off so i said i want to take
care of you that's why we did not do any shows for a year i'm glad i did he wanted me to go
back on stage so i did it was very difficult to at that moment to start you know dance on stage and
be emotional but try to sing happy songs too and running home and trying to support him and
hoping that he was going still to be that moment for me was really really really hard
i'm thankful to life in one way is that it could have been his passing away could have been way
more dramatic than that in the situation he was in you have three sons yes 15 and twins who are
five and a half five and a half and how are they coping when it happened i went and i asked for
some books for children to help me to how to guide them through this especially the twins of course
and it kind of like shook me off so much it was not my my way of wanting to talk to my
children one day i came home and i said because i have to talk to you i went in their playroom
i talked to them about the movie up up was from it saved my life so i said what is the movie that um
ely died and they said eli died in the movie up mom i said that's it eddie i said well i
want you to know listen to me i said papa is now with eli he went up and i said everybody goes up
they don't have tubes and they're never sick and they live in our heart but i said
what flies and then i talked to them about birds and butterflies and hummingbirds and they said
tinker bell i said she yes tinker bell helped papa a lot and papa is up if you want to talk to dad
or you want to send him a drawing or something you know how we do that you put it on a helium balloon
yes so they they send messages and they send the balloons up i said you know what i'm going to do
now we're going to do a celebration of life you know tinker bell she's got magic like sparkle
sparkles dust and fairy dust exactly thank you and i said right now we're going to take all the
fairy dust colors that we have we're going to go outside and we're just going to dance
and fly and jump like we're butterflies and we're going to send all the colors of the rainbow for
peppa it sounds as if you turned renee's death or passing into a celebration of his life we did
just a month after renee's death you performed in las vegas that was very hard
i could learn to tame the clouds and let the sun shine through oh my gosh how did you do that
it was hard to go back on stage even when he was struggling with his last weeks before leaving
he wanted to make sure that this thing is it started again she's back on track
it's working people are responding i think he checked these things out
made sure everything is okay as a way of taking care of you when he was gone yes
renee was so instrumental in your career you met him when you were just 12 years old
he gave me everything he gave me everything the best heritage that a woman a wife can have
three magnificent children and the knowledge of the show business that got me here today
and the album of the year is falling into you celine dion selenia this is incredible
you have had a legendary career when did you first realize wow i've made it
i am successful i am a star i never did i think for me the great most grandiose thing in my life
is to be a mom what i do i choose and i do it to the fullest like i always did but i i
i don't hope for nominations or to win what would what difference would that make but i have a bond
with my fans when i decide to go back on stage you know they'll always be there for you they've been
always always there and when rene passed i was extremely touched by the fact that they were so
so there in the tour that i just finished i went to belgium to paris monreal quebec
and the applause that i received were not a plot of oh selimu love you so much she's
gonna sing my favorite song they're like oh my gosh they were saying to me without a word
are you okay you know we're there you know we've always been there are you chilling fine
we can't believe you're here are you sure you want to do that
we love you so much you can leave i felt that i feel that the fans were grieving with me and
that helped a lot tremendously they know me beyond the songs and that for me is priceless every night
i see you your biggest hit of course is my heart will go on is it true you didn't like that song
i'm so glad that renee did not listen to me because i did not want to record it and he said
listen and and he said we're gonna just gonna do a demo that day i did not warm up my voice i just
took a black coffee with sugar james cameron did not want to have any singers singing in his movie
and james horner who is with renee wrote this song and then he tried to get me into the movie
like talking to me about the story and i said let me just go there and try the song
and when i start to sing the song you can hear that i took coffee because when i sing
it's a little bit it's caffeine it's like whoa whoa it's a little bit too much coffee
and i never resigned the song they took that version and they built an orchestra around it wow
is there any song that you just hate to sing now that you're like ah i can't
believe i have to sing that song again uh no but it crosses my mind a lot um
for my old repertoire like it's all coming back to me now
and because you love me and we're talking about 20 years ago and more
i see the titles i'm like oh god i can't believe i have to do this tour it's fine but i cannot do
the tour without singing those songs because i don't want to disappoint my fans but truth but
but i can't because you know why when i look at them it's like i would take all of them out
and i would sing sia and bruno mars and when they start they the people react so hard and they said
celine thank you so much for because you love me it was my dad's favorite song and you helped me
so much and then they cried i'm like in the power of love was that my wedding song and selena i just
lost my child and i have to say to you that i mean and they come back with my heart will go on and
fly and i'm stuck with these songs for the rest of my life in a good way so when i look at them i'm
like not again but when they start i don't even hear myself i don't even sing the song i just
look at them reacting and taking in and crying and cheering so i cannot erase what got me here today
you still love what you do don't you i still love what i do and i think i
i love it even more if i may say you've got a new album coming out yeah i just released
a new french album and i'm working on a new english album and and it started with pink
and she sent me a song that's called recovering thanks to pink again by the way thanks girlfriend
so i have a good feeling that i'm gonna have a good time it started pretty strong the show must