Celine Dion is breaking her silence in her first interview with ABC’s Deborah Robert after the death of her husband, René Angélil, who passed away after a long battle with throat cancer.
Celine said watching her husband suffer was the worst. She said she doesn’t want to say life is hard but it’s a different kind of hard.
She added, “It’s like I don’t live with him physically, but I live with him inside of me.”
Angélil died Jan. 14, just two days shy of his 74th birthday and on his birthday Celine’s brother passed away from cancer as well. “I said to myself, ‘For his birthday, my husband came and got my brother because my brother was too weak to fly on his own,’” she recalled.
The couple had three sons together: 5-year-old twins Nelson and Eddy and 15-year-old René-Charles. She shared that they all kiss him goodnight before bed and tell him they love him.
Celine’s husband started her career and wanted her to continue and go back to performing. Celine returned to the Las Vegas stage six weeks after his death.
“When I sing ‘The Show Must Go On,’ because when I was sick or when he was sick … even before I sang the song, he kept saying, ‘Show must go on,’” Dion said. “So because René said, ‘The show must go on,’ and that he gave me a lot of strength.
Dion plans to sing “The Show Must Go On” when she receives the Icon Award at next week’s 2016 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Then she will travel to Europe to promote her new single, to be released at the end of May, and her new album, to be released in August.
Watch more of Deborah Roberts’ interview with Celine Dion tonight on “Nightline.”
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