A more distant relationship than the director of the “Star Académie Québec” explains by his departure from the professional entourage of René Angélil, former husband and manager of Céline Dion, died in 2016. “We stayed on very good terms, but they [Céline Dion et René] have found it a little difficult that I leave, “said Garou. For eight years, René Angélil accompanied his career, with the ambition to propel him internationally, but Garou preferred to follow another path:” I did not have enough ambitions because they wanted to project me on a world career but I did not want at all “.
Mutual admiration
Earlier the same day, in an interview with “RFM”, the 52-year-old singer continued his confidences: “necessarily, I had to disappoint Céline and René a little,” he said. The father of Emilie Wrese Garand recognized that his need for independence and his will to “do things in his own way” had created a fracture in their relationship. On the other hand, that did not prevent him from showing admiration for the Diva: “I was fully!”, He reacted to his performance during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games.
Garou tells why he cut the bridges with Céline Dion
In 2022 in the program “En Aparté”, Garou already mentioned this distance: “We were very close with Céline, I think she did not understand when I cut the bridges with them”. If the singer had admitted to having had “the impression of having betrayed something”, he had underlined the “unique complicity” which linked them, him and Céline Dion: “When we find himself it’s magical because there are lots of things that happen in our eyes”.
