Celine Dion "took notes every day" in the last few months of her husband's life to remember all the things he had said

She said: "Touring the world is a big deal when you have three kids and travelling becomes problematic, it’s scary sometimes. It becomes more complex, and the grieving ... He did suffer for three years. A lot. I took a year off and I said, 'My living well is to be with you, it’s not my career. You are my career, you are my life.'

"That’s what a wife does, that’s what a mother does, that’s what a performer does. I took care of him the best way I could. We talked a lot and I took notes every day. I had my Post-its and my crayons and my book, and everything he wanted or questioned, or he thought of, I wrote it down."

And the 49-year-old singer recalled the heartbreaking final months of her husband's life and the sad moment he passed away.

She added to The Sun newspaper: "I put a bathrobe on top of him, night after night, when I left for the show. He gave me a teddy bear for St Valentine’s, so I cut the heart and I put it on him night after night for the remote control, his glasses, an earpiece. So when he passed, I put the heart under his head and I said, 'Listen to me, do you trust me? Do you believe me?' And he was gone.

"When he passed, I stand by his side and I said, ‘You know what, it’s OK, you know you didn’t deserve to suffer that much. He was cold. I said, 'It’s enough, it’s enough of suffering. You gave so much, you don’t deserve that.' I said, 'I’m fine, the kids are fine, OK, everything is going to be OK. You taught me, you taught me well. I’m going to use it.' And that’s what I do every day - so Rene will never die."