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Singer Celine Dion’s husband Rene Angelil’s dying wish was to watch her perform live.
Dion performed her signature ballad My heart will go on on a Las Vegas stage. While the fans cheered for her, there was only one person she was singing to.
At her family home a few miles away, her dying husband Angelil watched the performance via a live link from his bed, reports mirror.co.uk.
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Riddled with cancer, he was too ill to go to his wife’s live shows but his dying wish was for her to perform. He died in 2016.
She recalled: “It wasn’t therapeutic for me, it was therapeutic for Rene.
“For him it was very important because I took a year off to take care of him but towards the end he said to me, ‘I need to see you go on stage and sing, I want to make sure, I need to see it’.”
The 51-year-old mother-of-three said of the final performances Angelil saw: “I didn’t feel like partying or putting on short dresses and feathers. But what kept me going was that I thought of him. I did it for him.