CELINE DION AND RENE ANGELIL: WAS IT LOVE?

Rene Angelil met Celine Dion when she was 12 years old. He was hooked on her singing abilities and he instantly signed her.

The following year, he mortgaged his home to finance Celine’s first album, and the album turned out to be triumphant.

Celine was born in Quebec, Canada, so she didn’t understand the English language because Quebec is a French-speaking part of Canada, but René ensured that she took English language classes until she became skilled in the language. He needed her to sing in English to be able to break into the US market.

René’s efforts paid off and she was signed by Epic Records. Her first English album debuted in 1993.

René doubled as her manager and husband, and they got married in 1994. Their relationship turned romantic when she was 19 years old; René was 26 years older than Celine Dion.

Celine Dion stayed devoted to Rene even when she became extremely successful, and she didn’t let hypergamy get in the way of her relationship with Rene. She even cancelled her concert several times when René was battling cancer.

René was diagnosed with cancer three times, but he eventually succumbed to the disease and passed away in 2016. They were married for 22 years.

Celine never once turned her back on her husband in all those 22 years. He was a man who took a gamble on her, and she remained with him even after she became successful.

Celine Marie Claudette Dion (Celine Dion), often referred to as the ‘Queen of Power Ballads’, is noted for her strong and technically skilled vocals.

She was discovered by René Angelil and emerged as a teen star in her home country with a string of French language albums during the 1980s.

She was raised a Roman Catholic in a poor but, by her own account, happy home in Charlemagne.

She suffered several accidents as a young child, including an incident at five years old when she was hit by an automobile as her father and brother Clement looked on. She was hospitalised briefly with a concussion.

From an early age, she had dreamed of being a performer, and she said that she didn’t miss having lost her youth. She said she had one dream: she wanted to be a singer, and she got her dream.

Celine Dion first met René Angelil, her future husband and manager, in 1980, when she was 12 and he was 38, after her brother, Michel Dondalinger Dion, had sent him a demonstration recording of “Ce n’était qu’un rêve,” a song she, her mother Therese, and her brother Jacques Dion had together written. Over the following years, René guided her to fame.

After the dissolution of René’s marriage in about 1985, he and Celine took a break from each other professionally, and he spent a significant part of the year in Las Vegas, while Celine was learning English and taking dance and vocal lessons in Montreal.

Upon his return, René avoided being alone with Celine for too long, but she was falling in love with him and would keep a photograph of René under her pillow for fear that her mother, who always shared a room with her, would see it.

Less and less could she conceal the fact that she was falling in love with René. She had all the signs, and she was in love with a man that she couldn’t love and who didn’t want her to love him.

Celine’s mother would travel everywhere with her until she was 19 years old but she was initially wary of her growing fixation with a much older and twice divorced René. Celine was insistent, telling her mother that she was not a child anymore, that it was a free country, and that no one had the right to stop her from loving whoever she wanted to.

Celine and Rene’s professional relationship finally turned romantic after Celine’s win at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1988, when she was 20. The romance was known to only family and friends for five years, though Celine almost revealed it in a tearful 1992 interview with journalist Lise Payette.

In May 2000, Celine had two small operations at a fertility clinic in New York to improve her chances of conceiving, after choosing to use in vitro fertilisation because of years of failed endeavours to conceive. Their first son, Rene-Charles Angelil, was born on 25 January 2001. Celine suffered a miscarriage in 2009. In May 2010, she revealed that she was 14 weeks pregnant with twins after a sixth treatment of in vitro fertilisation. On Saturday, 23 October 2010, at 11:11 and 11:12 am respectively, she gave birth to fraternal twins by Caesarean section.

On 14 January 2016, Rene passed away at the age of 73 years old from throat cancer.

His funeral was held on 22 January 2016, in Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, where he and Celine married 21 years earlier.

Following Rene’s death, Celine became the sole owner and president of her management and production companies, including CDA Productions and Les Productions Feelings.

There have been numerous speculations on Rene and Celine’s relationship. Some say that he groomed her, some say not. Some might say that the circumstances were odd, but people fall in love, it doesn’t always mean that they were groomed.

It was an unusual situation. She was isolated from boys her own age and Rene became the centre of her universe, and I do believe that they loved each other very much. He might have seen her as an investment in the beginning, but I believe that ultimately, the love conquered all.

No one really knows what goes on in someone else’s relationship, but the marriage between Celine Dion and Rene Angelil has presented its fair share of questions over the years, however, Celine has remained devoted to Rene even years after his demise. This level of commitment expresses how deeply Celine must have loved her husband. Nonetheless, the couple’s life together has been marked by controversy from the beginning.

Their union’s murky beginnings have generated grooming accusations, mainly due to the age difference between Rene and Celine, and it’s difficult for many people to believe that someone as young as Celine could feel a genuine connection to the more experienced Rene.

Hey, I’ve known couples to marry, the man much older that have gone to have extremely successful marriages, with no grooming, unless you’re a horse of course!

Whatever the reason, it is none of our business, unless you’re a nosey so-and-so, which many people are. Celine Dion was successful, which is the one thing that she wanted, she wanted to be a singer. She fulfilled that dream, had three wonderful children, and was married for a extremely long to one man. That’s more than I can say for some people!