30 April 1988. Dublin. Céline Dion is a prodigious 20-year-old singer. She's not the superstar we know yet, but she's already making a name for herself. That night, she represented Switzerland at the Eurovision with the title "Don't leave without me" reminds me of Paris match. The magazine reviews an episode that changed Céline Dion's life both professionally and emotionally. The international singing contest is a true consecration for Céline Dion, who came out victorious. René Angelil, his impresario and mentor, is behind the scenes. He hasn't seen her in a year. The 46-year-old man preferred to distance himself by moving to Las Vegas, while Céline Dion told him his flame earlier during a trip to Paris. In secret love, she confesses to sleeping with a picture of him under his pillow since the age of sixteen. Now, 26 years of age separate them, but also three children and a divorce in progress: René Angelil rejects the advances of the one he saw grow up. He left a teenager a little left. That night in Dublin, he finds a metamorphosed, self-confident and sexy woman. After her orthodontics, Céline Dion changed her dress and hair style. The impresario is hypnotized.
He has managed it since 1981 to give him the fabric of a star and they usually debrief every performance in the privacy of his hotel room. At the end, it is always the same ritual: René kisses him on the cheek to wish him a good night. But in Dublin he derogates from this rule. The singer points it out to him. Just as upset as the singer, he leaves the play with the sole objective of getting away from her at all costs. After returning to the lobby of the hotel, he made a call to Céline Dion and confessed to her: "if you really want, I will be the first" and Céline Dion replied: "you will be the first. And the only one …" Report here. The barriers fall, magic finally operates: "it happened as in the movies. The heart has no age, "says René, who was initially afraid of this idea. Céline Dion's audience would not understand. The secret was kept for five years: "she wanted to shout it everywhere. I told him to temper. "
In the documentary Céline face à Dion aired on France 4 in 2016, the singer confides: "in any case, I had already had kisses with him before, without him, in thought." and to clarify: "I had a picture, I hugged that photo so loudly …. My husband had no face. True to herself and to the sincerity that guides her, the singer speaks with an open heart and reveals her feelings, her doubts: "you may hope for years. You're like, "No, no, no, listen, it can't be, I can't feel like that, I'm a young teenager." Time passes by […] And then finally one day the kiss comes, which you have hoped for a long time. " And when it happens, "it hits hard, it scores! It is the scar for life. "
The last kiss of Céline Dion and René Angelil
In a poignant portrait released on M6 in 2016, Céline Dion: my life without René, the singer looks back on her husband's last moments, before he was carried away by throat cancer at the age of 73. With strength, courage and love, she confides extremely touching details about their thirty years of living together, but also the last kiss given to her beloved: "I was close to him with all his coldness. I stood by him from the very first moment, I waved to keep the kids away. [.] René-Charles wanted to keep a living image of him, which I respected. I squatted, I kissed him. I caressed him for several hours. [.] I put a cushion under his head, I warmed him up and I said, "Don't worry, the kids are fine, I'm going to keep it going, I'm going to take good care of them." "
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