Taylor Swift is retaining her facet of the road clear relating to Céline Dion.
The ladies induced a stir after they have been captured in a heat embrace backstage on the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4. The second transpired after Dion introduced Swift with the Album of the Yr award for her 2022 report Midnights.
Within the candy snap, Swift, 34, pulled Dion, 55, in for a hug and blushed because the “My Coronary heart Will Go On” singer smiled for the digital camera.
The cute embrace got here simply minutes after followers took to social media to query the twosome’s alternate on stage earlier than Swift’s acceptance speech. Because the pop star made it to the rostrum she laughed and smiled along with her collaborators however seemingly brushed previous Dion whereas grabbing her award and addressing the viewers.
“Taylor Swift totally ignoring Celine Dion just like the disrespect even Celine was like … Que?” one particular person wrote through X, whereas one other stated, “Taylor Swift simply took the album of the yr trophy from Celine Dion with out batting a watch and/or acknowledging {that a} legendary GOAT was handing her the award.”
Others, nonetheless, knew the second was doubtless credited to Swift being overwhelmed with receiving the evening’s largest honor.
“That is very candy,” one particular person stated of Swift and Dion’s backstage hug. “It’s an honor to have THE Celine Dion be the one handy you AOTY.” One other added, “Girls and gents, these are two legends of the music world, a priceless frequent body.”
“My Roman Empire,” a 3rd gushed.
Dion’s look on the 66th annual awards present was a shock, as she was not initially listed as a presenter. The legendary vocalist revealed in December 2022 that she has been battling stiff-person syndrome.
“I’ve been coping with issues with my well being for a very long time and it’s been actually tough for me to face these challenges and to speak about every part that I’ve been going by,” she informed her followers through an Instagram video on the time, sharing that the “very uncommon neurological dysfunction” induced her to have “spasms” and was affecting her vocal cords and different muscle groups.
“I’m working laborious with my sports activities drugs therapist day-after-day to construct again my energy and my potential to carry out once more, however I’ve to confess it’s been a battle,” she stated.
Sunday’s award present is the second time Dion has been noticed out and about just lately. She and her three youngsters, son René-Charles, 23, and twins Nelson and Eddy, 13, went to observe the Vegas Golden Knights play the Montreal Canadiens in October 2023. (Dion shared her three youngsters with late husband Réne Angélil, who died of throat most cancers in January 2016 at age 73.)
Two months later, Dion’s sister, Claudette Dion, gave an replace on her situation. “She works laborious, however she doesn’t have management of her muscle groups,” Claudette informed Canadian journal 7 Jours in an interview revealed in December 2023. “What pains me is that she has at all times been disciplined. She at all times labored laborious. Mother at all times informed her, ‘You’re going to do that proper, you’re going to do that proper.’”
Whereas Dion has been nominated for 16 Grammys all through her profession, taking dwelling 5 wins, Swift made historical past on Sunday as the primary particular person to obtain AOTY 4 occasions. The “Anti-Hero” singer, who was nominated for a complete of six awards this yr, additionally took dwelling Finest Pop Vocal Album for Midnights.
“I might like to let you know that is the most effective second of my life however I really feel this completely satisfied after I write a track, or crack the code to a track I really like, or after I’m shot itemizing a music video or I’m practising with my band or rehearsing with my dancers or on the point of fly to Tokyo to carry out,” Swift gushed throughout her AOTY acceptance speech. “For me, the reward is the work.”