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| Celine Dion performs onstage in Los Angeles, Nov. 22, 2015. (Getty Images) |
The singer who is just recovering from
“severe and persistent muscle spasms,” said the healing process is hindering
her ability to perform. The Canadian songstress made this known via her post
published from her verified Instagram account.
The singer in October 2021 cancelled her
Las Vegas residency as a result of the spasms, saying at the time that she was
“heartbroken.”
The 16 remaining shows of her Courage World
Tour had been rescheduled to commence from March 9 to April 12 of this year.
However, they have since been called off while her medical team assesses and
treats her condition.
“I was really hoping that I’d be good to go
by now, but I suppose I just have to be more patient and follow the regimen
that my doctors are prescribing,” Dion said in the Instagram post.
“There’s a lot of organizing and
preparation that goes into our shows, and so we have to make decisions today
which will affect the plans two months down the road.
“I’ll be so glad to get back to full
health, as well as all of us getting past this pandemic, and I can’t wait to be
back on stage again,” she added.
Dion is best known for her recording of the
balladic “Titanic” theme song, “My Heart Will Go On” that won her two Grammys
in 1998. The following year she became one of the best-selling artists in history
with record sales surpassing 200 million globally, according to Sony Music.
Speaking about the cancellation of the
North American leg of the tour, Dion added, “Meanwhile, I’ve been very touched
by all the words of encouragement that everyone’s been sending to me on social
media. I feel your love and support and it means the world to me.”
Still, ever since she lost her husband who
was also her manager six years ago, she hasn’t been the same. At every
anniversary of his death, she has always taken to social media to pay
emotion-laden tributes to him.
This year is not an exception. On Friday 14
January, the “My Heart Will Go On” singer shared a touching tribute to Angélil
— who died at age 74 .
“I would be lying if I said I’m fine, I
think of you at least a hundred times, cause in the echo of my voice I hear
your words just like you’re there… I miss you – Céline xx…” she wrote in the
caption.
The singer repeated the first portion of
the phrase in a second paragraph, but replaced “I miss you” with the French
translation “Tu me manques.”
Last year, Dion shared a tribute similar to
Friday’s post to honour the fifth anniversary of Angélil’s death in 2021.
Instead of lyrics, however, the “All by Myself” artist offered a personalised
message to her late love.
“René, it’s been 5 years already… There’s
not one day that we don’t think about you,” she wrote in the caption alongside
a black-and-white photo of herself and Angélil holding hands by the ocean.
That same day she penned another tribute to
her late husband on Instagram: “We’re reaching out to you now more than ever,
to guide us, protect us, and continue to watch over us,” Celine wrote in part.
“And we pray that you’ll shine your love on the entire world, to all those at
this very moment, who are facing incredibly difficult times. You are in our
hearts and in our lives forever.
Though they first met when Dion was 12 and
Angélil 38, they went public with their relationship shortly before getting
engaged in 1993 on the “Power of Love” singer’s 25th birthday. The couple wed
in December 1994 and remained married until Angélil, who was previously Dion’s
manager, died in 2016.
Dion and Angélil had three sons together
during 22 years of marriage: René-Charles, 21, and twins Nelson and Eddy, both
11. Dion opened up about life after losing a husband and a father in a May 2021
interview on Today.
“I feel like René has given me so much
through the years and still today,” she said at the time. “I see my kids. I
look at them — we live with him. We still live with him. He’s part of our lives
every day, so I have to say that I feel very, very strong.”
Earlier in the interview, Dion said dating
someone new wasn’t on her mind. “Right this second, love is so big right now in
my life, with my kids, with life itself,” she said. “I’m not thinking about a
relationship and falling in love again. I don’t. Do I have to say that it will
never happen anymore? I don’t know. I don’t know.”
Dion made similar comments in a separate
interview with Today in September 2019 shortly before releasing her
aforementioned single “Courage,” which tackles losing a loved one.
“I don’t date. I’m not ready to date,” she
admitted on the show. “I’m so lucky to have so many people surround me who make
me laugh, but I miss to be touched. I miss to be hugged. I missed to be told
I’m beautiful. I miss what a boyfriend and what a husband would do.”
However, Dion said her late husband was
often on her mind. “Before I talk, he goes through my mind ‘Would he do that?
Is it too edgy? Would he be approving that?’ I believed in him so much and I
still do,” she explained.
“There’s a point where he’s not here
anymore,” the star continued. “I have to take charge of my life.”