She had to take antibiotics after the fashion emergency.
Celine Dion took the sentiment “beauty is pain” to a whole new level on her wedding day. In a new “Life in Looks” Vogue video, the legendary singer spoke about her 1994 wedding to René Angélil and her iconic wedding look, including her bedazzled headpiece…which sent her to the hospital.
Dion recalled the piece being “glued” to her head and sewn in place. “So no problem, I can manage the weight,” she remembered. “When you’re so happy there’s no weight. There’s no problem. There’s no pain.”
During the rehearsal, Dion said "everything is smooth and everything is fine," but on the big day, she said she "had an immediate face lift."
Celine Dion Gave a Heartbreaking Update on Her Stiff Person Syndrome
"I start to walk and I go like, 'Am I gonna make it? Am I going to make it to my future husband?'" she explained. "But like I said, I'm going to run to you. I did."
She put any pain aside during the event saying that "all night, [it's] all great, people [are] happy," however, when she removed the headpiece that night, she noticed a cut on her head from the "pressure." By the morning, things were quite literally looking rough.
"The next day, I wake up, I look at myself in the mirror. I have a [bump] the size of an egg in the middle of my forehead. I looked to my husband and I said, 'It's too late now. We're married,'" she joked, before adding that she had to go on medication for the fashion-inflicted injury. "But it's so huge that it made my eyes look [like they were crossed]. I'm like, 'OK, let's go to the doctor.' I had to be on antibiotics for about three weeks."
Despite the headpiece snafu, Dion looks back on the special day as a “moment that will be with me for the rest of my life.” She added that the memory of her wedding to her late husband makes her “speechless.” Angélil, with whom Dion shares three sons (René-Charles and twins Eddy and Nelson), died in 2016 after a battle with cancer.
"My husband and I got married in '94. December 17, to be precise. I still feel his presence so much," she said. "This is a moment that will be with me for the rest of my life."