Known around the world for her legendary voice, Céline Dion led a discreet life with her husband René. After his death, the star had to face another ordeal: a rare neurodegenerative disease. With her appearances becoming increasingly rare, the announcement of the release of an exceptional documentary on the Canadian diva made an impression. I am: Celine Dion will be made public on June 25 on the Amazon video platform and this is being awaited by all fans of the singer.
For the TF1 channel, presenter Anne-Claire Coudray had the immense opportunity to meet Céline Dion in order to discuss her journey but also her neurological disorder: stiff man’s disease. An interview which will be broadcast this Sunday June 16 in the 8 p.m. news. The journalist returns to this memorable meeting in an interview with Gala. After watching the documentary, Anne-Claire Coudray mentions its strength: “I’ve never seen that. It was crazy. I had never seen a star confide with such sincerity and honesty.“Moreover, the journalist specifies that no question was forbidden and that Céline Dion answered”without filter“.
The Canadian singer wanted to make this documentary in order to “to explain why she had to walk away from the stage, because for her, it was like a heartbreak. She has this feeling of having abandoned her fans“, indicates Anne-Claire Coudray. The interpreter of I’ll go wherever you will go also spoke about her relationship with her illness: “she felt like she lied to herself because she had the symptoms of the disease but she wouldn’t stop. Until the day she stopped everything“.
The journalist discusses the health of Celine Dion
However, the presenter wants to be reassuring about the state of health of the Quebec star: “There, she is better. Physically, she is a little different. For example, we see that she saves herself, she has great discipline, we see that she is careful in her everyday life, in her treatments. She is followed by a whole team.” Then she adds: “It is a daily struggle, and this until the end of one’s life. She is extraordinarily combative, has lost none of her sense of humor, nor her desire to come back one day, and that’s also what she wanted to say.”
