7 Stars Who Tragically Lost Their Partners - Page 5 of 9

Celine Dion

Iconic singer Celine Dion lost her husband of 21 years, René Angélil, to throat cancer in 2016. She was 48.

“Rene wanted to die in my arms but, alas, I was singing that night. He must have wanted to get up and he fell on the floor,” Dion explained to Paris Match magazine. “Normally, after my show when he had taken his last medications, I gave him a kiss, tucking him in and sent him off to sleep. That evening I didn’t want to wake him. It was the nurse who found him the next day.”