You never know who’s watching! After Kelly’s emotional performance of Kelly Clarkson’s “My Heart Will Go On”, the Canadian singer was delighted with the performance.
“Kelly, when I got back from the Olympics, I got to watch and listen to your reaction to my performance on the Eiffel Tower,” Dion, 56, said on Instagram Reel earlier this week. “It was so sweet to hear you—your voice. Your voice was breaking and it touched me so much. You cried and then you made me cry. What’s with all this damn crying?”
I just saw you sing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ and I’m crying again,’ she continued. “You were absolutely amazing, fantastic. I loved it so much. I hope we can see each other live soon, very soon. And I hope we don’t start crying. I love you so much.”
Céline Dion’s cover of “My Heart Will Go On” made her cry Kelly Clarkson: “I Loved It So Much”
Clarkson, 42, responded to Dion on Oct. 8 and provided context for how important the feedback is to her.
“22 years ago american idol, I got laryngitis. They all got sick for a week because they made us look shabby,” Clarkson explained. “They had no idea the show was going to blow up.”
She continues, “The week I had laryngitis… I had to sing Celine Dion’s ‘I Surrender All.’ I screamed that night because I was terrified that Céline Dion was going to see this performance. I could care less about the votes then.”
Clarkson goes on to describe the performance as “so bad because I was so sick.”
The talk show host and singer said her Kellyoke version of “My Heart Will Go On” set things right more than two decades after her first attempt at covering Dion, who she said was one of her “major inspirations.” “I felt like I sang well, you know? I didn’t have laryngitis, I wasn’t sick, and I have to pay tribute to someone who is such a hero to me vocally.”
In the first season Idol for Clarkson’s Top 4 performance, she sang Dion’s “I Surrender” from the 2002 album. A new day has come. Judge Simon Cowell alluded to the illness affecting the cast, praising Clarkson for singing despite “how stressed your vocals are this week”. He even says, “The fact that you can talk this week is a miracle.”
Cowell then tells Clarkson: “I think you’ve just put yourself in the same league as Céline and Mariah Carey.”
Kelly Clarkson sings on the Kelly Clarkson Show.
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Céline Dion Describes Scary Stiff Person Syndrome Symptoms 17 Years Back: ‘I Went Down, Down, Down’ (Exclusive)
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Céline Dion at the screening of her documentary in New York in June 2024.
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In the June 2024 cover story for PEOPLE, Dion opened up about her diagnosis of Stiff Person Syndrome and what it means for her return to the stage. “I don’t want to sound pretentious, but [singing] it was never difficult. I was afraid it was more difficult,” she admitted. “I thought, it shouldn’t be difficult.”
But the future is promising, as she said, “I have a wonderful coach vocally and physically [my treatment plan] it makes such a difference.”
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