This Thursday, November 9th, National Day Against School Bullying was celebrated. On this occasion, an interview with Céline Dion from 2019 resurfaced on the Internet. The 55-year-old singer spoke very emotionally about her difficult college years.
She has sung on the biggest stages in the world. And yet Celine Dion hasn’t always lived the diva life we know her as. On the occasion of the release of her children’s clothing brand CELINUNUNU in 2019, the 55-year-old singer from Quebec spoke in front of the cameras of Youtuber Lola Dubini about the school harassment she suffered in her youth. “The worst years of my life for me were school,” we hear him say in this video (starting at 5:12 minutes) from a few days ago as part of the National Day Against Bullying in Schools on Thursday, November 9th appeared.
With a sad look, the singer of the song “Pour que tu m’aimes encore” explains that the latter was the target of a lot of ridicule because he was very thin and not particularly good in class. “I had badly damaged teeth, I was skinny and not at all self-confident… I had no friends, I wasn’t pretty,” she continues in the sequence, assuring that she could still count on his tireless support family: “I became too “So loved and protected at home by my sisters, my brothers, my parents.”
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The one who dreamed of becoming Vanessa Paradis then remembered an episode, perhaps one of the most traumatic of that time. “I had to walk 20 minutes to get to school and often ran through snowstorms because I didn’t have much time left for lunch… I will always remember a boy in my class saying, ‘If.’ “You don’t bring me oranges and apples after lunch, I’ll pick you up after class or I’ll beat you up, depending on the look on your face,” she then explained, miming holding a fist in front of her face. . When Céline Dion remembers this story, she sheds a few tears before an assistant brings her a tissue. “I experienced this and it is very scary. I ran home really fast and he threw icy snowballs at my legs.” she continued.
The singer then explained that her father needed to put an end to the harassment she was experiencing by talking to the boy who was tormenting her. If her attacker never spoke to Céline Dion again, she encouraged all young victims of school violence to confide in their caregivers to break the silence. “If we speak, we win, but we have to speak. You have to use words, you can’t use gestures,” she concludes, assuring that the key lies in the ability to “love yourself and take responsibility for yourself.”
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