Celine Dion has revealed that her marriage ceremony to her longtime supervisor, René Angélil, did not go as picture-perfect because the gorgeous portraits made it seem.
In 1994, the then 26-year-old My Coronary heart Will Go On hitmaker married late husband Angélil, then 52, and wore an elaborate headpiece that was adorned with 2,000 Swarovski crystals and weighed nearly seven kilos.
In a brand new Vogue video, Dion, who revealed nearly two years in the past that she had stiff particular person syndrome, broke down her Life In Appears to be like for the style bible and mentioned how the hefty headpiece needed to be sewn onto her head.
‘No drawback, I can handle the burden. And while you’re so joyful, there is not any weight, there is not any drawback, there is not any ache,’ the 56-year-old legend mentioned.
Celine Dion has revealed that her marriage ceremony to her longtime supervisor, René Angélil, did not go as picture-perfect because the gorgeous portraits made it seem
In 1994, the then 26-year-old hitmaker married Angélil, then 52, and wore an elaborate headpiece that was adorned with 2,000 Swarovski crystals and weighed nearly seven kilos
‘We form of rehearsed one time with the gown and the large veil and all that, and it was in a giant ballroom and it was all product of like lovely wood flooring.
‘I apply and all the things is clean and all the things is ok, however once I needed to stroll the cathedral, it has no wood flooring, it is carpet. I had an instantaneous facelift.
‘I begin to stroll and… it is like, “Am I gonna make it? Am I gonna make it to my future husband?”… I did, so all evening, all nice, individuals joyful.
‘However after we eliminated that tiara, I had a lower as a result of the strain was an excessive amount of. The following day I get up, I take a look at myself within the mirror, I’ve the dimensions of an egg in the course of my brow.
‘I take a look at my husband and I mentioned, “Ha, it is too late now, we’re married”. Nevertheless it’s so enormous… I am like, okay, let’s go to the physician. So I needed to be an antibiotics for about three weeks.’
Paying tribute to her late husband, Angélil, who died of throat most cancers in 2016 aged 73, Dion mentioned she nonetheless felt ‘his presence a lot.’
‘This can be a second that shall be with me for the remainder of my life,’ she mentioned.
‘The [wedding] gown could not have been sufficiently big. I may have had thrice the dimensions on my head.
In a brand new Vogue video, Dion broke down her Life In Appears to be like for the style bible and mentioned how the hefty headpiece needed to be sewn onto her head
She mentioned there was a lower on her head when she eliminated the tiara. ‘The following day I get up, I take a look at myself within the mirror, I’ve the dimensions of an egg in the course of my brow,’ she added
‘I may have had six completely different clothes that evening as a result of he was and he is nonetheless such an exquisite human being.
‘He introduced the most effective [out] of me, he actually did.’
In the identical video Dion additionally touched on her ‘nerve-wracking’ look on the 2024 Grammy Awards, the place she introduced Album Of The 12 months to Taylor Swift, however described it as a ‘massive honor’ as effectively.
‘That magic, that pleasure to see the followers, to see the group, to see present enterprise once more. It took rather a lot, rather a lot out of me. However my son, Rene Charles, RC, got here and gave me his help,’ she recalled.
‘And to current the award, the Album Of The 12 months to Taylor Swift, it is an honor as a result of she’s having the time of her life and I am the one who’s presenting it to her. Nevertheless it’s all the time very, very touching when you’ve gotten a standing ovation.’
In the identical video Dion additionally touched on her ‘nerve-wracking’ look on the 2024 Grammy Awards, the place she introduced Album Of The 12 months to Taylor Swift (pictured)
Dion first met Angélil when she was 12 years outdated and he was 38. However the pair (pictured collectively in 1995) later fell in love
Dion first met Angélil when she was 12 years outdated and he was 38.
It wasn’t till a lot later that the pair fell in love, and she or he revealed the information to followers in 1993 within the liner notes of her third English-language album, The Shade Of My Love.
‘I wrote a be aware behind my album,’ Dion mentioned, in keeping with CNN.
‘Rene is my love, I can not preserve this secret inside me anymore. It is getting too highly effective. Let me paint a reality and present you the way I really feel. Rene, you’re the shade of my love.’
The following yr, Dion and Angélil married in a church ceremony in Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica.
The couple went on to have three youngsters: René-Charles Angélil, and twins Nelson and Eddy Angélil.