She was left heartbroken back in January when, following a long battle with throat cancer, her husband René Angelil, 73, passed away in their family home; now, Céline Dion has summoned the strength to talk about how the family are preparing for their first Christmas since his death.
"I can't believe it's going to be a year that my husband passed," Céline shared in a new interview with Page Six.
"I don't know when Santa Claus is coming, but if I had a wish to make this year, can you just tell him to take his time? I'm not ready."
Céline, who is mum to six-year-old twins Eddy and Nelson as well as 15-year-old René-Charles, married René, who was also her music manager, in 1994 after seven years of dating.
Explaining how Christmas is going to be tough this year, the 48-year-old said that it is "kind of a bittersweet moment."
"I cannot just live on like, I lost my husband, my children have no father," she said.
"I have to stand tall and strong because this is my way of living: stand tall, be positive, pick your battles, do the best you can and to live for today, not for tomorrow, for today, and know that nothing is perfect, not everything you want will happen."
"We are healing each day. My kids are doing really well and eventually you have to just to move on. Yesterday is over, tomorrow is not here yet, so today is today."
