Speaker 1: Hi there. You know I have been at this radio
Speaker 1: thing for so long, matching your stories, your dedications to
Speaker 1: the perfect love song. I couldn't begin to guess the
Speaker 1: number of times that today's guest on my podcast Love
Speaker 1: Someone with Delilah was the artist behind the song that
Speaker 1: I chose to pair with your Call. She's performed a
Speaker 1: total of four hundred and twenty seven amazing times during
Speaker 1: her Las Vegas residency, from making her not only the
Speaker 1: most beloved performer on the strip, but also the most
Speaker 1: profitable accents Elvis Pressley and Late last year, she released
Speaker 1: her twelve English studio album because she has some in French,
Speaker 1: but twelfth studio album entitled Courage, and launched her Courage
Speaker 1: World Tour, which will continue through North America, the UK,
Speaker 1: and Era. Courage. Courage such a fitting title to a
Speaker 1: beautiful new album. Many of the tracks speak to where
Speaker 1: she is in life right now, a widowed mother of
Speaker 1: three growing boys who is learning to navigate life without
Speaker 1: her partner, her husband, the love of her life, no
Speaker 1: longer by her side, but forever in her heart. She
Speaker 1: is a powerhoused artist and performer who loves, loves, loves,
Speaker 1: loves loves loves. You've ever seen her in concert, you
Speaker 1: know this is true. She loves entertaining her fans. She's
Speaker 1: also an advocate for children who require special care. But
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Speaker 1: we have the great privilege of sharing a little time
Speaker 1: with Miss Selene Dion Delila is just Selene. Hello, beautiful, Hello,
Speaker 1: delightful Delilah. How are you? I am wonderful? What a
Speaker 1: treat to get to talk to you for a few moments.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful to stick with you as well. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. So before we start the podcast, I watched
Speaker 1: some of the videos, uh from your new album, from
Speaker 1: your your tour and your album, the Courage Album, and
Speaker 1: I sat here crying, sobbing, praying for you, going, how
Speaker 1: am I going to have an interview when I'm a
Speaker 1: hot mess? Oh? Thank you? That such a compliment. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. You're still crying. I'm I'm. I tried
Speaker 1: to pull myself together, and then I looked at the
Speaker 1: tour dates and saw that, um, the day you're in
Speaker 1: my area, it would be my son's twenty one birthday.
Speaker 1: And then I started crying all over again. I'm like, Okay, God,
Speaker 1: help me out here. I'm sorry. The video that you
Speaker 1: did that you released the Courage video. Wow. Of all
Speaker 1: the things I've ever seen you do, and I've been
Speaker 1: playing your music since you started, since David Foster first
Speaker 1: brought your music to me a long long time ago.
Speaker 1: Of all the things I've I've seen you do and
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times I saw you in
Speaker 1: Vegas and Selim. That video is so powerful and so beautiful. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so very much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I read a review some author said Celine Dione has
Speaker 1: moved on from her heartbreaking loss, and I want to
Speaker 1: I want to call this person and say, you don't
Speaker 1: move on when you lose the person that is your world.
Speaker 1: You never move on. You learn to coexist with the pain,
Speaker 1: but you don't move on. Well, I think you move
Speaker 1: on in a way that you try to live with them. Differently,
Speaker 1: you don't move on. I mean, it only depends the
Speaker 1: way that you see and you're here and you uh
Speaker 1: one the meaning of the word itself. Um, it's like
Speaker 1: some people say a new chapter of a book or
Speaker 1: a new book, or turn the page. I mean I
Speaker 1: had to move on to not sob every day for
Speaker 1: the sake of my children. I'm a single mom. I
Speaker 1: still love to sing from my fans. I have to
Speaker 1: show them courage, I have to show them independence. I
Speaker 1: have to show them everything that I in my power
Speaker 1: to tell them that to stand for themselves. And they
Speaker 1: have a voice and they have inner strength. And I
Speaker 1: have three boys, three boys, and two of them just
Speaker 1: had your twins, just had a birthday recently. Yes, actually
Speaker 1: my twins they just turned nine years old. So you
Speaker 1: move on in a way that, um, you just learn
Speaker 1: how to live differently with the person that's not next
Speaker 1: to you. But he's in with with within you, he's
Speaker 1: within you, he's within your boys. He's Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: see Renee through the eyes of my children every day.
Speaker 1: There's such adorable the twins are so adorable. And Charles, Renee,
Speaker 1: Charles such a handsome young man. Yes, he has a girlfriend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. I don't know if you well,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know some I mean some
Speaker 1: kids today they're thirteen years old, they already have girlfriends.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't let my kids date that young eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: And um, and he has a wonderful girlfriend, Alexa, and
Speaker 1: she's beautiful and she's she's so good with him, and
Speaker 1: she's so good with the twins. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: like I I I want him to to find love.
Speaker 1: I want him. I mean, it doesn't mean that they'll
Speaker 1: get married and that's gonna be the they're gonna be
Speaker 1: together for the rest of their lives. Which at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's like you hope, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: let's enjoy life and discover and it's spread your wings
Speaker 1: and and and but at the same time, it's like
Speaker 1: when you want to know if the person is is
Speaker 1: nice as nice because she's she's pretty outside, it comes
Speaker 1: inside out, and you know, like not too long ago,
Speaker 1: she was she came home and she she she got
Speaker 1: r c you know, outside with the twins. She brought
Speaker 1: pumpkins and she said, come on, come on, I see
Speaker 1: I want you to do. This is your brother. Let's go.
Speaker 1: And they were carving pumpkins and they were playing basketball.
Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, oh my god, I would have
Speaker 1: asked him to carve pumpkins with his brother's and would say, mom,
Speaker 1: come on, I've passed the age of doing that. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, you know, but the girlfriend mentions it. Girlfriend,
Speaker 1: she said, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're doing this.
Speaker 1: Come on, we can do this, you know. Come on,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make it. You're gonna make them so happy.
Speaker 1: They love you so much. Oh my good And she
Speaker 1: butt them sweaters and they that's all the only sweater
Speaker 1: that they wear now. So they basically basically my three
Speaker 1: boys are in love. The girlfriend. It sounds like all
Speaker 1: three of them are in love with her, all three
Speaker 1: of them. We took a short cut. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember. Many years ago, I came to see
Speaker 1: you in Vegas and your oldest son R. C was
Speaker 1: a baby and was back in the dressing room and
Speaker 1: I got to hold him and play with him after
Speaker 1: your performance, and he was such a happy, happy baby.
Speaker 1: And now you're going on tour. That was when that
Speaker 1: was many years ago. You're going on tour. Now are
Speaker 1: the boys touring with you? Are they staying at home?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna always? They've always been with me,
Speaker 1: They've always been touring as me. It's the first time
Speaker 1: actually that I did not bring my children. First of all,
Speaker 1: my son. My three children are home schooled. My son
Speaker 1: has a girlfriend and he didn't really want to, um
Speaker 1: go on tour. It was heartbreaking. But at the same time, UM,
Speaker 1: I have to tell you that this store, the way
Speaker 1: that it's been arranged is that we don't usually we based.
Speaker 1: We're gonna base like two months, three months, uh, in
Speaker 1: one hotel in one city in one country, and then
Speaker 1: I will take the plane and I will just like
Speaker 1: travel back and forth. But this this time. It's like
Speaker 1: one show, after the show, go to the airplane next day,
Speaker 1: the next day. I mean, it's one show, one day,
Speaker 1: up on show, one day up on show, one day
Speaker 1: on shoe day. I mean. I don't want to drive
Speaker 1: my kids and say, oh my god, my mother was
Speaker 1: in show business. We did not have a life. No,
Speaker 1: I want them to go to school to experiment and
Speaker 1: and all played basketball and go swimming and they love
Speaker 1: their teacher and and it's okay that we miss each
Speaker 1: other a little bit because when I come home, it's
Speaker 1: so intense, it's so beautiful, it's just amazing, and you know,
Speaker 1: with skype a lot, and they don't they're so happy
Speaker 1: and busy. They don't even have that Hi, mom, how
Speaker 1: are you? God good? You did a good show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we're reading now a book and uh, we want
Speaker 1: to show you because it's a four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: five stages And I'm like, are you kidding me? And
Speaker 1: I make them and they're like so proud. They send
Speaker 1: me pictures so you know what, and they Mom, gotta go,
Speaker 1: gotta go because we have two a project. We have
Speaker 1: a surprise for you, by we love you. They don't
Speaker 1: even have time to talk to me. You know what,
Speaker 1: It makes me feel good knowing that they're good. If
Speaker 1: my kids are good, I can go on stage and
Speaker 1: do my my singing and and and have a good
Speaker 1: time with my fans because I know that my kids
Speaker 1: are well taking care of the god mother there is
Speaker 1: my sister Linda. For my three children. I know they're
Speaker 1: in good hands their home, they're safe, and I miss them,
Speaker 1: of course. But you know the hardest thing to do
Speaker 1: is that sometimes you have to what's what's the best
Speaker 1: for them. It's not just you what's good for me.
Speaker 1: I only keep them with me all the time. But
Speaker 1: they need to learn and they need to It's hard
Speaker 1: because you try to teach them how to fly, but
Speaker 1: you never want them to take off. So it's like
Speaker 1: it's very difficult. But you know what, I really I
Speaker 1: don't have a hard time because I know they haven't
Speaker 1: a blast right now. So you you you are giving
Speaker 1: them roots so that they know that they are grounded,
Speaker 1: and you're giving them wings to fly. The apple. The
Speaker 1: apples did not fall far from the trees. Because those
Speaker 1: munchkins of mine, they love music, they dress up every day,
Speaker 1: they love fashion, they play all the time. Carrie, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. Oh my gosh, you should see they
Speaker 1: send me pictures. I'm like, are they serious? I mean
Speaker 1: they're they're dressing up to go to bed. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling my sister, it's okay, it's who cares, It's fine,
Speaker 1: care good boys. They fall asleep with a top hat
Speaker 1: like a big big hat and cowboy boots and and
Speaker 1: like a penguin off it who can't? And then when
Speaker 1: they fall asleep she undressed them and makes them more
Speaker 1: more comfortable. But when they watch a movie, they want
Speaker 1: to be the character. You should see their closet to
Speaker 1: get dressed. If you think I have clothes, they have clothes. Selen,
Speaker 1: you are an amazing mother. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: you encourage your children to find and follow their own
Speaker 1: creative pathways. When we come back, I want to spend
Speaker 1: a few minutes talking about the song Imperfections, which really
Speaker 1: resonated with me. But right now we need to pause
Speaker 1: for this important message. Today we have the great pre
Speaker 1: viledge of sharing a little time with miss Celine Dion.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I wanted to talk about you know,
Speaker 1: you've got this fashion. Since you you're at the Met,
Speaker 1: You're at these fashion shows and yet you are so
Speaker 1: stinking down to earth and humble. And the song that
Speaker 1: I'm playing on my show right now, Imperfections, talks about that.
Speaker 1: And in the video you you you bear it all.
Speaker 1: You you wipe the makeup off and there you are
Speaker 1: in all your reality. Was Was that your idea to
Speaker 1: do the song that way? Yeah? I wanted to do
Speaker 1: this for a long time actually, and um, I asked
Speaker 1: them if they would allow please give me keep some
Speaker 1: time and some tape and some some sometime during that
Speaker 1: day of shooting. I really want to because we all
Speaker 1: have imperfections. Nobody is perfect in this world. Um. And
Speaker 1: for me, is that because I love fashion so much,
Speaker 1: because I or roal characters when I'm on stage and
Speaker 1: I pretend that I'm like this and that, and with
Speaker 1: the songs that I'm singing, and I'm you know, like
Speaker 1: if we're playing, we're doing music. I mean, I'm doing this,
Speaker 1: uh professionally, but I don't take myself seriously. I'm having
Speaker 1: a good time. I'm playing. Um. But when I wanted
Speaker 1: also that message that everyone has imperfections, but the interfections
Speaker 1: you have to to to kind of feel to accept
Speaker 1: that because nobody is perfect, and for me it's that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I should have done that at well, what is it
Speaker 1: going to be proven? What? Okay, that's fine, that's fine,
Speaker 1: but it's happening now. And I really wanted to um
Speaker 1: do it and it was the right timing, the right song,
Speaker 1: and nobody is perfect. And I wanted to have a
Speaker 1: message for the women who, maybe so Madame, have a
Speaker 1: hard time to accept that they're a little like this
Speaker 1: or a little they're getting the aging or whatever whatever
Speaker 1: they feel sometimes not very um a self esteem about
Speaker 1: themselves and knowing that nobody is perfect, you have you
Speaker 1: have to love yourself the way you are with if
Speaker 1: you know. And and I'm not against people who go
Speaker 1: and try to want to try to fix some some
Speaker 1: with whatever things there is out there, um to go
Speaker 1: to doctors and fix things if it makes them feel better,
Speaker 1: and I encourage that, and that's fine, but it's also
Speaker 1: okay that time our youth was great, and also at
Speaker 1: my age is wonderful because it brings you knowledge, and
Speaker 1: because I have children and they will keep going and
Speaker 1: I will have more to show and I will have
Speaker 1: more more things to discover. But I wanted the women
Speaker 1: to know that, Hey, we all have our imperfections, but
Speaker 1: are they really imperfections? No, it is who you are.
Speaker 1: I love the line. I've got my own set of
Speaker 1: scars to hide, and I think all of us have
Speaker 1: those emotional scars that we try to hide from our childhood,
Speaker 1: or from mistakes we've made, or from abandonment, or from grief.
Speaker 1: But it seems like in this tour and these songs
Speaker 1: that I'm listening to, you're not hiding those scars. You're
Speaker 1: sharing them and saying, it's okay, We're all in this together.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay, Okay, you have to assume yourself
Speaker 1: and it's okay, and it's gonna it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Let's let's just just grow one day at a time.
Speaker 1: It's going to be okay. We have strength, we were women,
Speaker 1: were strong, we raised darn we just we here we are.
Speaker 1: Let's go. M hmm. That's good. It can't hold your
Speaker 1: heart while I'm fixing mine. A great line, and I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna save you. I love that line. How many
Speaker 1: times did I earn into relationships when I was younger
Speaker 1: thinking I was going to save someone from their addictions,
Speaker 1: from their bad choices. Thank God I outgrew that phase,
Speaker 1: but I want my daughters and other young women to
Speaker 1: hear that and recognize it. Your job ain't to save somebody, baby, Oh,
Speaker 1: your job is to be the best that you can be.
Speaker 1: So Um, I know that you Selene have your own organization,
Speaker 1: your own philanthropic organization. And my producer Janie said Delilah,
Speaker 1: basically she gives to everybody and is trying to save
Speaker 1: the world with her goodness. And that really that really
Speaker 1: touched me. What are some of the projects that you
Speaker 1: are really pouring your heart into. Well, actually, um, I
Speaker 1: do have a foundation, and I try to help um
Speaker 1: a lot of children, so uh young children to uh
Speaker 1: um um the godmother of theistic fibrosis. UM. Actually and
Speaker 1: and I have my own foundation to which I raised
Speaker 1: money to to help six children. We have us some
Speaker 1: in our family here carries the gene and we lost
Speaker 1: one of our niece, my sister's daughter. She was sixteen
Speaker 1: years old. And when I was asked to participate and
Speaker 1: to try to raise some money. Eventually after that, I
Speaker 1: wanted to be more involved and try to have my
Speaker 1: own UM, my own foundation to try to help even
Speaker 1: more um And and Also, it's just that UM not
Speaker 1: only to be the spokesperson for St. Justine, which is
Speaker 1: a the hospital of children in Montreal. UM. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, the thing is that I think it's a
Speaker 1: a responsibility of human beings too. If we can try
Speaker 1: to help, if we see somebody struggling, if we can
Speaker 1: try to help, to be part of a foundation and
Speaker 1: raise some money, we don't even have to think about this.
Speaker 1: We don't even have to talk about this. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about that because it's like
Speaker 1: it's normal, it's natural. I want to say, yes, I
Speaker 1: have my foundation and I give a lot of money
Speaker 1: to I mean, it's true. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think it's just normal. I mean, the fans have
Speaker 1: given me all through those years an amazing life. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to raise my children the best way I can,
Speaker 1: and I'm fortunate enough to have um an extraordinary life.
Speaker 1: In the least that I can do is to pay
Speaker 1: back in the best way that I can, and to
Speaker 1: to raise some money for people who are struggling and
Speaker 1: the kids who are having a hard time, who might
Speaker 1: not have a future, to whom much is given, much
Speaker 1: is required. You have been blessed richly, and as a result,
Speaker 1: you give richly. You're so sweet, Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. You know what, in life, you
Speaker 1: don't want to be a taker, you want to be
Speaker 1: a giver. I definitely want to be a giver. And
Speaker 1: you have given so much beautiful music to the world, Selene,
Speaker 1: and I am so excited for your tour. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you do it. I looked over your schedule
Speaker 1: and it's a crazy schedule. I would love to. I
Speaker 1: would love to. I may find the courage to come
Speaker 1: and see you on my son's birthday. Yeah, I'll be around, darling.
Speaker 1: And you know what, thank you so much for playing
Speaker 1: my music for so long. I really really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And we'll see each other again really real soon. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, God bless you. I love you, Love you. Bubbye, honey, Bubby.
Speaker 1: How amazingly fortunate are we? Blessed? Are we just spend
Speaker 1: time with a musical icon. Selene is talented, she's beautiful,
Speaker 1: she's kind, and she is very very courageous. If her show,
Speaker 1: The Courage World Tour comes to a city near you,
Speaker 1: I encourage you to get tickets and go. But until then,
Speaker 1: I encourage you to slow down and love someone,