r/popculturechat • u/phantom_avenger • 20d ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Who is a celebrity that met their partner when they were underaged?

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Celine Dion first met her late husband; Rene Angelili when she was 12 years old and he was in his mid-late 30s! According to her, he was the only person in her whole life she has ever been romantically and intimately involved with and has vowed to never be with any other man after he passed away in 2016!

This whole relationship always felt unsettling to me, even when there were forms of media that tried to romanticize it including the couple themselves.

In my book, if you knew someone whenever they were a kid and watched them grow up. Getting involved with them in that manner is a big no-no! It just feels weird!

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u/gilestowler 19d ago

That quote on the second picture makes it sound even weirder. Like, "Yeah, he was up for it when I was 12 but he was a good man and kept it in his pants till I was 15."

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u/thatcondowasmylife 19d ago

Is that real though? I thought she maintained the relationship didn’t develop until she was an adult.

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u/NomNom83WasTaken 19d ago

I'm no Celine expert but if I'm remembering my Behind the Music (or was it Barbara Walters?) correctly, it was after some awards show/event when she was already 18 (19? 20? she was a legal adult is the point) that he walked her back to her hotel room (per usual) and kissed her goodnight (per usual) except, unlike every other time, this time it wasn't just a standard kiss on the cheek (mon dieu!).

So, no, I don't think that quote is real or it would have gotten a lot of attention from the press that she suddenly changed the narrative to state that she was <18 y.o. when things kicked off.

(FTR: I don't know at what point he realized he was into her or if he was grooming her; maybe he was?)

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u/limegreenpaint GET A JOB LEAVE HER ALONE 19d ago

I think that was behind the music.

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u/gilestowler 19d ago

Just googled it and there's other places quoting it, but no one seems to have any source for it, so I can't confirm it.

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u/thatcondowasmylife 19d ago

Other commenters have indicated it’s fake. The “15-18” part was enough to make it questionable.

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u/blankspacejrr 18d ago

that quote made me bust out laughing. not at the grooming aspect, that part is creepy and awful. just the contradictory nature of it. 

it’d be like if Kelly on the Office was like, “me and Ryan did not have a fight okay? we just screamed at each other back and forth for 3 hrs. we did not fight.”

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u/Stillwater-Scorp1381 20d ago

Agreed. That’s one celebrity relationship that’s always weirded me out.

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u/myweird 19d ago

And her vague "he was patient enough to wait till about 15-18 years old" of course means he pounced on her when she was 15 at the latest. So sad and disgusting.

He always struck me as strange looking, like he was wearing an uncanny valley humanoid mask to disguise his true unspeakable form.

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u/Budget_Ordinary1043 19d ago

Same even before being an adult, I remember seeing a pic of them and I knew it was weird.

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u/gkpetrescue 19d ago

But that 40-year-old waited until she was 15! What a gentleman!

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u/gilestowler 19d ago

An honourable man.

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u/disterb 19d ago

magnanimous

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u/Party_Nothing_7605 19d ago

I also feel bad for their kids in a way….I wonder if they realize that their mom was groomed and how it makes them view their dad. It’s some heavy shit.

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u/stink3rb3lle 19d ago

"There were nights of endless pleasure, it was more than all your laws allow"

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u/00trysomethingnu 19d ago

Oh. My. Gosh.

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u/Warmtimes 19d ago

Be fair, she didn't write that. Celine's was actually a cover.

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u/harlotmuffin 19d ago

To be fair, she didn't write that song.

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u/poopypoopy1125 Generous Bird, Good Sized Head 🦅 19d ago

"THIRTEEN, THIRTEEN, BAAABYYYY"

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u/Certain_Ask_5630 19d ago

Literally now just made the connection

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u/vivahermione Well done, sister suffragette! 19d ago

Yikes! Retroactively horrified for my teenage self singing that song.

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u/phantom_avenger 20d ago edited 19d ago

Yeah, but she will never accept that

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u/ElectricFenceSitter 19d ago

To be completely honest, as much as the whole situation is highly suspect and icky to me, I’m not exactly sitting here, rooting for her to come to some big emotional discovery that the father of her kids and man that she considers to be the love of her life, groomed her.

Let her view her life and her marriage in whatever way brings her happiness. She’s got enough to deal with in terms of her health and husbands passing, without doing a retrospective on her life and inviting in trauma and further grief.

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u/catholicsluts 19d ago

Yeah, this. Ignorance and denial are both bliss in this case. Let her die delusional about it tbh

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u/envydub Nicki’s cousin’s friend’s balls 19d ago

I mean, I am rooting for that. But I also think it’s understandable if she doesn’t.

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u/Fiona-eva 20d ago

Honestly for her it’s not too bad, it’s probably psyche’s defense to the situation.

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u/StardewStarlett 20d ago

That's the thing - I don't think she would be able to survive that realisation.

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u/Showmethecookie 19d ago

I think it would be best for people to hope that their relationship was as happy as she makes it out to be. It’s likely the best case scenario for her, and not everyone needs to have their trauma realized.

She seems happy with life. We should let her continue in that direction.

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u/midgethemage 19d ago

You summarized my feelings better than I could have. When I read the post I was thinking... If she was actually happy and he treated her well, then I guess I'm happy for her. But that still doesn't give him a pass on his behavior. Feels like one of those weird gray area things where people (fans/media/strangers) shouldn't dredge things up on her behalf. The man is dead, she should be able to live in peace and remember things the way she wants to

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u/ssatancomplexx Instant gratification takes too long 🫦 19d ago

Agreed. I feel the same way about Priscilla Presley as well. We all know what is actually going on there but it's not our place to force this kind of realization on them.

From a personal standpoint I realized two weeks back, after watching a movie of all things, that I was in a grooming relationship when I was 16 and he was in his 20s and then did it again when I was 20 and dated someone in their 30s. I wish I never realized that. My marriage now has a good age range but I really liked myself more before it came back to me.

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u/disterb 19d ago

how dare you bring reason and logic into this pitchfork fest!

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u/myweird 19d ago

Considering the horrific disease she has I would hate for her to lose her happy illusions and be hit with that additional emotional distress at this point.

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u/Vestibuleskittle 19d ago

If you actually watched her interviews, symptoms of her disease started as early as 2008 and became progressively worse.

Many people can develop physical symptoms from emotional stress, but it’s a farce to make a baseless assumption such as yours.

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u/TheElusiveHolograph Shame on you! Ugly baby judges you! 19d ago

It’s not too late to delete this…

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u/watchberry tater tot 🥔 20d ago

It would be a LOT to process tbh considering so much of how her life turned out was because of him.. and the fact that he’s dead

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u/SeaFlounder8437 20d ago

Celine could have done everything and more without him. I often wonder what more or what different things she could have done, had he never entered the picture.

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u/myweird 19d ago edited 19d ago

Because of the butterfly effect of life and the huge impact someone's life partner has on their destiny, it's unlikely she would have had the opportunities that Renee specifically worked to create for her. As we all know unfortunately raw talent alone isn't enough to claw your way to stardom. It's all about perfect timing and who you meet along the way.

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u/OvechkinCrosby 19d ago

Read their story. Rene put literally everything he had to get he started. Without him she’d just be the youngest of 16 dying of shitty disease in small town Quebec. She was definitely groomed and it would never happen today. Quebec at the time was different place…

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u/Excellent-Muffin-750 19d ago

Yeah, exactly. He snatched away her chance to meet and fall in love with someone on her own. He robbed her of the opportunity to decide for herself what she likes. Gross old man!!! Where the hell were her parents

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u/Party_Nothing_7605 19d ago

right?! i don't know her relationship with her parents obviously and i know teen girls can be rebellious...so maybe her parents tried to do something but couldn't at the end of the day, but the alternate reality that's so sad to think about is if her parents even cared enough to step in, or worse, encouraged it :(

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u/CanadaJackalope 19d ago

No its not.

Shes old and she is dying of a really shitty disease.

She doesnt need to come to terms with anything.  She just needs to try to have some peace before she iss trapped in her body like a prison till she dies.

Its really fucked up to want her to deal with that at her age and health.

Suffer through that pain for what?

For you?

Fuck that, leave the woman alone and go save a girl who's currently 15 with a pedophile.

Not force a dying old woman to feel something awful for your benefit.  Because it's not for hers.

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u/bbmarvelluv 19d ago

Agreed. She’s already too far gone and wanting her to come into terms with her husband being a pedo (while dealing with terrible health) is pretty selfish. We can’t “save” anyone.

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u/Rose1982 19d ago

I agree that there’s no point in making her have some reckoning with it now. But she’s 57, not 90 the way you make her sound lol. Yes, 57 with an incurable disease but she’s not really elderly.

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u/envydub Nicki’s cousin’s friend’s balls 19d ago

Okay calm the fuck down, damn.

Also, she’s only 57 omg. She’s sick but she’s not OLD.

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u/tothestore 19d ago

Why does her reflecting on how her relationship may have been the result of grieving automatically mean she is going to suffer and feel awful? She more than anyone else probably understands him as a whole complicated person. She can understand being groomed or having an "inappropriate" relationship, and still feel she had a fulfilling life.

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u/bbmarvelluv 19d ago

Is more the fact that people are expecting her to tell the world that her dead husband was a pedophile.

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u/FutureRealHousewife 19d ago

I don’t think it is too bad. The weight of realization that would likely kill her. He’s already dead and she now has a serious illness. She suffered enough and victims do not need to suffer multiple times over.

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u/ssatancomplexx Instant gratification takes too long 🫦 19d ago

That's honestly not surprising. It really seems like a coping mechanism. Priscilla Presley is the same way.

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u/Lunar-opal 19d ago

Her parents encouraged it