Impossible to mention Celine Dion without mentioning René Angélil, the one and only man (or almost) that the star has known in her life so far. It must be said that the singer began her career very young and quickly knew the man who was to become the one of her life, and the father of her children. As a teenager, did she only have time to have a few crushes like girls her age? The book Celine Dion, the real story published by Robert Laffont editions, written by Laurence Pieau and Hervé Tropéa answers the question and reveals a “crush” by Céline Dion for a handsome sporty kid. But it could well be that René Angélil is the one who prevented this romance from seeing the light of day…
It must be said that René Angélil, manager and husband of Celine Dion, still has a real and immense influence on the interpreter of I will go where you will go. In love as in work, the Canadian was ready for anything, even the worst, for his sweetheart. Some still remember it, including Nathalie Jean who had been asked to write the very first biography of the singer. A project that could not be completed after pressure from René Angélil. “It’s crazy, the methods they usedshe recalled. They took my manuscript and threw it in the trash […]“
She has a real crush on the star
And it may well be that it is not only in the job that René Angélil has proven questionable methods. In the pages of Celine Dion, the real story, we learn as well as the interpreter ofI’m alive had a crush, when she was a teenager, for a handsome sportsman. The time of a TV show, she shoots a sequence with the young hockey hopeful Gilbert Delorme, can we read. “Hair in the wind, white blouse buttoned up to the neck, wise sweater on the shoulders, she sings Of love and friendship in an Auston Healey convertible which he drivessay the authors. She who has so far only known a fleeting ‘boyfriend’ (Sylvain) has a real crush on the hockey star.“
The silence of René Angélil which speaks volumes
So when the sequence ends, Celine Dion asks René Angélil “to arrange a date with the handsome boy“. But the star is going to be told that Gilbert Delorme can’t.”First heartache. ‘I was crying’, said Céline on the set of Julie Snyder. Did René really try the meeting? The mystery remains“, it reads. But when the now late famous manager was asked about it years later, he remained vague, the book states”not saying yes or no…“A silence that could say a lot.