As super-duper icky as that relationship/marriage looked from the outside, I actually think they were in love. I recall when she was on talk shows and was asked about it and explained how the relationship began. She even married him twice. Ana Gasteyer also did a great parody of her on Saturday Night Live mistaking her husband as her father seen
here. However, as VC pointed out in the article, something has changed since René died and seems to be relishing in the materialistic side of life, and now she’s using her celebrity status to sell ugly clothing for babies. Every so often when I’d close an email account, I would see pedestrian articles on her about
who she’s wearing. Personally, I never thought she was style icon so I don't know why anyone would really be interested in her attire.
What’s interesting is VC quoted her years ago when Whitney Houston died. She said this:
“It’s just really unfortunate that drugs, bad people or bad influence took over. It took over her dreams. It took over her love and motherhood. When you think about Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse, to get into drugs like that, for whatever reason. Is it because of the stress and bad influence? What happens when you have everything? What happens when you have love, support, the family, motherhood? You have responsibilities of a mother and then something happens and it destroys everything. That’s why I don’t do parties and I don’t hang out. That’s why I’m not part of show business. We have to be afraid. I’ve always said you have to have fun and do music and you can never be part of show business because you don’t what it’s going to get yourself into. You have to do your work and get out of there.”
– Source: Vancouver Sun
Celine made that statement when her husband was alive. René passed in January of ‘16, and she seems to have gone full force into the darker side of the entertainment industry. Makes one wonder what happens at those Met Gala parties, as she attend her first one in ’17.