Celine Dion Shares The Emotional Reason She Kept Her Coat On At The Grammys

The singer's appearance at the February ceremony marked her return to public life nearly two years after revealing her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis.

Celine Dion is reflecting on her experience at this year’s Grammy Awards, an event which marked her unofficial return to the spotlight after going public with her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis nearly two years ago.

In a “Life in Looks” video interview to accompany Vogue France’s May issue, the French Canadian chanteuse described her surprise appearance as “very nerve-wracking, but at the same time, a big honor,” later gushing about the “magic” and “excitement” of returning to show business once more. And as it turns out, the much-discussed mustard yellow Valentino coat she wore over her pale-pink gown served a very specific, and emotional, purpose.

“I was like, ‘I can walk onstage with a coat?’ Oh, yeah! You can do whatever you want in fashion. Have a good time, wear that coat, own that coat, go for it,” Dion explained. “And it made me feel better for a moment to hold onto this coat, to hide myself a little bit from all these little things.”

She then broke into a song with a few impromptu lines from her 2019 single “Imperfections,” from her most recent album, “Courage.”

Watch Celine Dion’s “Life in Looks” interview with Vogue below. Her remarks on the Grammy Awards begin around the 12:04 mark.