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SINGER Céline Dion, 65, made a shock look on the 2024 Higher Deck NHL Draft, held on the Sphere in Las Vegas, Friday (6/28), to announce the Montreal Canadiens’ fifth-round draft decide.

Dion, who was launched on stage because the group’s “primary fan,” was seen getting into the venue sporting a white V-neck costume whereas holding palms together with her eldest son, René-Charles Angélil.

A number of hockey followers cheered because the music legend walked onto the stage with an enormous smile on his face. After arriving on stage, he shook palms and gave kisses on the cheeks to group leaders earlier than taking his place on the microphone.

“I’m very enthusiastic. [Saya] “Not even a hockey mother,” the Grammy winner joked to the group, earlier than saying the group’s decide, Russia’s Ivan Demidov.

After the announcement, Demidov was seen celebrating along with his relations and pals earlier than occurring stage and thanking the hockey group leaders. He additionally shook palms with Dion and his son earlier than selecting up his new group jersey.

Dion’s shock look comes days following she launched her new documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, directed by Irene Taylor, which gives a “uncooked and sincere behind-the-scenes look” on the famous person’s “battle with the life-altering illness,” folks’s syndrome stiffness recognized in August 2022.

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“A love letter to his followers, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided his life whereas additionally showcasing the resilience of the human spirit,” the documentary’s synopsis reads.

Because the analysis, the “My Coronary heart Will Go On” singer has needed to cancel tour dates and bear an intensive remedy plan that features medicine, immune remedy, vocal remedy and bodily rehabilitation.

Dion tells PEOPLE that her three sons, who have been her kids together with her late husband, René Angélil, have given her power amid her well being challenges. René-Charles, particularly, has accompanied his mom to a number of occasions following her analysis, together with the premiere of the documentary on June 17 at Lincoln Heart’s Alice Tully Corridor in New York Metropolis.

“I might barely stroll at one level, and I used to be lacking life a lot. My youngsters have been beginning to discover. I believed, ‘Okay, they’ve already misplaced a mother or father. I do not need them to be afraid,'” mentioned Dion, who can also be a mom of 13 12 months previous twins, Nelson and Eddy.

“I instructed them, ‘You have got misplaced your father, [tapi] Mother has a situation and it is totally different. I will not die. That is one thing I’ll study to reside with,'” he continued. (Folks/Z-3)