Katie Couric Interview with Celine(and Tom later)

[Linley-Garciona]

Celine finished make-up and walked out onto the interview set, sitting down in her chair. This was her first interview since starting one of her two year breaks, and she knew it would mostly be focused on her drama with Ginette and her sex tape/pregnancy. Tom would be coming into the interview a little later, so it was good that she would have that support with her. She needed all the support she could get right now.

["DANI"]

Katie Couric walked onto the set and over to Celine. "Hello, Celine," she said. "I'm Katie Couric. The interview will start in a minute." She turned and faced the cameras.

"Hello, and welcome to One on One with Katie Couric. Tonight we'll be interviewing a star that has never seemed to leave our eyes. With record sales of over 280 million, she is the best selling female artist of all-time. I am talking about the incredible Celine Dion. Rising from poverish roots in Charlemagne, Quebec, this little girl started her career at age 12 and had Francophone success in her native Quebec and some in France. In 1990, Celine took the world by storm with her English debut album, Unison. Celine dominated the 90's as the reigning soft rock power ballad queen, and continued into the 2000's as the Vegas showgirl who defined Vegas history with her sold out A New Day... show, and becoming the Pop/Rock Queen of that decade, also having a child in 2001. After troubles with her husband of many years who discovered her, she divorced him and married 20 year old actor Tom Felton, with whom she had a 20 year age difference. At 40 she gave birth to her 2nd child, and took a 2 year break. Celine came back and took the world as the reigning Gothic Metal Queen in French and English, completely re-inventing her image and gaining massive commercial success. Now she is taking some chances and releasing a blues/soul album entitled More Than Meets the Eye, and she'll be releasing a French album in a few months, as well, and going on a 100 date tour next year. Celine, welcome."

She faced Celine again. "Now, what can you tell us about your new album?"

[Linley-Garciona]

Celine crossed her legs, then looked at Katie. She brushed some hair out of face, relaxed that the first question wasn't about the tape. "Well, as yew already said, it will be a blues and soul album entitled More Than Meets de Eye. I am very excited about dis album because I 'ave always loved de music of Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Etta James, Amy Winehouse, god rest 'er soul, and many oders(others). I will always love de Gothic Metal genre, and I shall go back at one point to go for anoder(another) round. The French album will be entitled Aimer et l'Ame, which means Love and Soul. It is more.....experimental than de English album, because dis one will be more blues and soul mixed with some metal music, very new and interesting. De English album is more straight up blues and soul." Celine smiled.

["DANI"]

Katie smiled. "Sounds interesting. Will you be going on tour?"

[Linley-Garciona]

Celine nodded, brushing some hair out of her face. "Yes, I will be going on a tour after both albums are released. I will be promoting dem both first, den going on a short world tour, about 70 dates. It should be very nice to see de world again after a couple years." Celine hoped that Katie wouldn't bring up the issues with Ginette for a while.

["DANI"]

"Great," Katie said. "Now, let's move on to a more serious topic. How is Ginette doing these days?"

[Dion-Felton]

Celine took a deep breath and felt herself getting emotional as Katie asked her that horrible question. Celine was easily emotional, so she tried to not let the tears flow right away, but you could for sure tell something was wrong. "Well, to be honest, we're still trying to pick up the pieces and do what we can to support Ginette. This is a very difficult time for her, and even though she has made some stupid mistakes, I still love her with all my heart and want to help her out." She wiped a tear from her eye and she maintained her composure.

["DANI"]

Katie nodded. "How have you chosen to deal with the harsh media criticism?"

[Dion-Felton]

Celine maintained her composure as she looked at Katie. "I'm no stranger to critics, i've been having them ever since I was a little 12 year old girl in Quebec. What you have to do is hold your head up high and not think about it. It's just other people's opinions, they don't know the full truth. They only see what they read in the papers.

["DANI"]

Katie nodded, looking sympathetic. "And would you mind elaborating on what the 'full truth' exactly is?"