bonjour céline bonjour
ça va bien très bien et vous
moi aussi we'll do the rest in english though
oh vous ne parlez pas français c'est dommage
il y a 30 ans je suis allé à Paris transfusion française i'll do the rest in english
translation please i see these people jumping up and down cheering
for you does that energize you absolutely that's the purpose for us to be able to uh not only do
recordings in the studio there must be it's got to be something extraordinary uh coming from the
crowds and that's why i'm insisting myself to go uh and perform on stage because you receive back
if you look at some of the most ancient healing traditions they always had music around them in
fact even today well it's very therapeutic it is and we play music for our patients
undoing heart surgery you put your ear pieces on and yes and one of the most popular musicians that
they ask us for is celine dion oh my goodness it's true honestly that's true yes can you imagine this
can you imagine that one under a heart surgery my heart will go
i hope on near far wherever they are they come back and they they take that energy and we do as
well as surgeons which is why i'm so upset it took you six years to put a new cd what takes so long
we need the music you're holding up surgery well what took me six years well first of all i didn't
rest for six years i didn't go in vacation what happened is uh i i did a friendship first of all
i've been in at the coliseum at caesars palace with a new show now for two and a half years
thank you yeah um also um i have recorded a french album and i had two more babies
so you were busy so yeah i got a little busy you know i i listen to it it's fabulous thank you
and it's as open as you are and i've always been curious some you know sensitive topics
joyous topic celebrations and uncomfortable issues you're very open about your life how did that yeah
i've been criticized uh quite a bit through my life that i've been an open book very much
but the way that i first of all it's the person that i am i came from a very large family i'm the
14th child i never had a chance to talk so um oh look at it so i started show business and i'm like
this is my time i'm going to talk and i'm not going to stop
the thing that the the the thing is um i think the fact that i've been an open book
and share my stories uh it it helped me actually to be able to communicate better
uh through my songs when the curtain opens and people i know that people might know um
a few songs um is one thing but when i feel that they know me personally
it's it's magic for me it helps me to carrying the song to to to
to be in the business for 30 years because i i love and i'm still passionate about the music
but i don't like the industry at all i'm not part of the industry at all i think the fact that i
didn't really want to be part of the show business world um
me to be healthy and to be alive and why is that how how would avoiding show business allow you to
live the life i think i think show business is a wonderful place for what you need to take from it
the fans um the adrenaline on stage uh the pleasure the kick that you have from traveling
discovering the world uh it gives you a lot of privileges in life as well if you're fortunate
you make money you can buy homes and toys and medicine and you can support your family so
um there's a lot of things but also you you have to know that it is a yes place
it is a drug that you need to know how much to take and when to take it but it's a yes place
um and it's not reality um everybody is willing to invite you to say yes to give you anything you
want and you hang and you get caught and i've been protecting myself and it doesn't mean that it's
like this all the time everywhere for everybody but am i gonna i never wanted to take a risk i
never wanted to take a chance we've seen we've all seen um we're not protected from everything
we don't live in bubbles but we own ourselves we cannot blame everything and everybody for
things that happen so we have to own our bodies we have to own our souls we have to own our brains
and we have to respect ourselves and our family and the people that love us and the people that
we do love and we have to say thank you so much i had a great time tonight thank you good night
where do you draw the line i mean raising your family now
drawing the line it's um i think i owe this i mean i don't want you to think that i'm uh it sounds
smart what i'm saying right now it's not something that i can i just thought of this and uh it's
it was given to me it was given to me to me by my family i we had ex amazing parents um it doesn't
matter what you accomplish in life if you know sometimes you're successful sometimes you're not
sometimes your dreams will come true sometimes they won't but you cannot hold on to one thing
you cannot hold on to one dream and say this is my life you know i only i want to sing and this is my
whole life and then what happens if it doesn't happen you don't have a life you're going to die
what's going to happen so my family my parents had given us true sense of stability of really
to be true values of life love affection attention music my parents were musical
we always had music in our house um
and we never had money but we were never poor and that is giving you it it's that that that's
a lot that's a lot and i can tell you that in the middle of my life at 45 years old i'm at the best
and we're back with a very soulful celine dion so one of the the health issues you were very public
about was your struggles with infertility the very uncomfortable painful experience of going through
in vitro fertilization i i would love to hear your advice for the millions of women who struggle with
this and i'll hear a little bit more about your journey yes if i may say for me it was not hard
at all it was it was not painful either how can i explain that can i block the pain
did i want it so much that i gave myself the shots because most of the time people will have a nurse
give it yourself yeah intramuscular yeah i gave it myself i was feeding no men no man could ever
do that but that's why we carry the baby that's right but if i may say that uh yeah thank you
now you've got three beautiful sons oh there you got a picture how was motherhood i look at these
kids and it's like a full-court press aren't they cute it's extraordinary of course every parent and
it's it's the only way it should be the way you got your stomach here's tom and jerry that's right
um no that's eddie and nelson i was just uh um every parent should think and should really
believe that their kids are the best kids in the world and they're the prettiest they are they're
sacred unique ways but it must wear you down all the things you do plus motherhood well um i i have
to admit that at the beginning of my career i was um i was really focusing on my career i needed to
prove myself that i could do it i was training a lot i was very disciplined i worked really hard um
i was very lucky because i was surrounded with wonderful people that i'm i'm still with the
same people for 30 years um but i was focusing on my on my on my journey in show business
then i wanted something more real i wanted to be a mother
and and at one point i thought that i was not going to be a mother it was a little bit hard
but then i regrouped myself and i said you know i'm so fortunate i have a wonderful husband i
was i have a great family i have a career i have money my dream came true in a way i can
be greedy and maybe i'll never be a parent you can't have it all so i really soothed myself um
and then it took a while but i have three magnificent children i'm very blessed
so you mentioned uh not by name but by impact renee her husband they've been married 20 years is
that right correct almost 20 years 20 years here's the picture of the wedding which is you know
fantastic yeah but i i really went for it yes you look like mario 25 if i want to be a princess one
day that was the crown the veil the long i mean the whole thing yeah many may not know this but
he actually was your manager at age 12. correct so at a very young age you uh had already developed
at least a a trust in him and then he developed cancer yeah survived is he doing okay yes thank
you so much for asking so what was it like for someone who was so close to you for so many
years you have such a passion for and just watch him suffer a cancer that could have killed him
yes what did that teach you about you as the both of you fought away this yeah this big illness well
um it gave me a lot of strength it did because renee took all the decisions for me all my life
and he helped me help me help me he was my pga you know he was my strength
and when this happened i felt that i felt that i don't want to say a weakness but i felt like
he needed me for the first time i needed him but he doesn't need me i'm his favorite singer he's
my manager he's going to tell me where to go sing and i'll do i'll do my song but now i felt that
we're not singing now we're not talking about a song and i i can't help you i don't know what
i'm gonna do and and it gave me that i'm gonna help you i it's my it's my time it's my chance
and through helping him he gave me an opportunity to grow a lot
an opportunity of growth i call it when you have challenges in life things that gets in
the way i say it can be small things it can be big things it's an opportunity of growth and that
spiritually makes you very balanced it's important it's very important speaking
of balance if i can transition a lot of folks getting colds and flus what happens to celine dion
no i'm joking i mean you can't perform it's a it's a part of your career i never anticipated what do
you do when you get a sore throat you can't sell the shows literally just don't show up all those
people come no it's actually let me say that it is much more difficult to cancel a show or shows
go home and feel that a lot of people are mad disappointed sad feel turned down
and they have the rights but it's reality we can be preventative and i know for myself
that i don't drink i don't do drugs i don't go out i'm busy i play a lot i'm a mom i'm happy but
my kid goes they go to school rc goes to school we go to baseball we meet people we touch door knobs
we shake people's hands we say hi and bye so and it's in the air um it's it's alive these germs are
traveling around us some people are very strong and some people how do you say strong so you
beat back these viruses i mean it's i i don't beat all of them first of all um i have the uh the flu
vaccine you do you take action i i do i do take the vaccine um i i had um actually two years ago
i had the i had the flu oh on your back yeah i would i could not function
so i have the flu shot and i'm not protected more than you are and you are you can take vitamin
c and drink 16 orange juice a day you'll have reflux my friend so it's like you do the best
you do the best you can it's um i've got you again oh my god what is that another flu shot
no no no i had it i'm not giving you another flu shot i actually have looked high and low
far and wide to try to find something that might be actually of value to you and i had we have a
big medical unit here at the show and we searched and found this inside that box eucalyptus it's not
eucalyptus it's a present that uh has been proven proven and there are very few things have been
proven to actually hermetic it's not homeopathic uh it's a little i'm trying to find out i like i
like that game yes well it's not homeopathic it's a portable humidifier it's not portable
humidifier okay because i but it will reduce the chance go ahead and open the box yes please do i
love giving presents to people thank you so much i love presents let's see let's see what it is it
is my god what's that what is that it's scary
poo pourri
cork it is pieces of wood it is tree bark but oh eat it am i supposed to eat
it's not poisonous it actually you locked me back
almost survived uh it is something called the larch tree bark now large i feel it do you feel
like i like it lurching forward yeah again it reduces the number of colds brand new state
just came out what do i do with that i put in my underwear or like yes you could put it in
your well it's a very nice thing i can't eat it no you can't just smell it rub it no it comes
it comes in a bottle it's an immune booster we do oh my god 23 they extract from this
something called larch resistant it's a raw material that's been tested it boosts the
immune system your immune system has cells that that stuff you're going to boost my immune system
i'm i'm going to be feeling better and and more energy not more energy i don't know okay because
i have a lot i can see that not more energy your immune system will be better equipped to beat back
viruses when they first invade because someone in the audience sneezes at you that the sneeze
particle travels 100 miles an hour before you can duck out of the way and you're talking about you
know whatever theme is on your mind it gets in your nose so this will help you beat that back
and when i meet people and they sneeze on me that's what's going to happen dracula dracula
all right so celine has agreed to stick around with her dracula outfit
and perform one of her new songs later in the show it is absolutely fabulous
i am looking forward to it thanks so much doctor we'll be right back