The Trump campaign has played Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” at multiple campaign rallies throughout 2023 and 2024, though Dion’s statement said she and her management team had only recently become aware of its use, specifically pointing to it being played at Trump’s rally in Bozeman, Montana, on Friday.

“Today, Celine Dion’s management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized usage of the video, recording, musical performance, and likeness of Celine Dion singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ at a Donald Trump / JD Vance campaign rally in Montana,” Dion said in a statement posted to her X and Instagram accounts.

“In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use. … And really, THAT song?”

“My Heart Will Go On” is a romantic ballad that served as the theme song to James Cameron’s “Titanic.” Released in 1997, it is one of the best-selling singles of all time.

CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign regarding whether they will cease playing the song at future events.

Rihanna, the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, and the estate of George Harrison, among other musicians, have all previously objected to Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns using their music, dating back to his original run in 2016.

Dion made headlines last month after returning to the stage in grand fashion with a performance of Edith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’amour” at the Olympics opening ceremony.

It was her first concert performance since revealing that she is living with stiff person syndrome, “a rare, progressive syndrome that affects the nervous system, specifically the brain and spinal cord,” according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Celine Dion made her return to the stage at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris in truly grand fashion.

The superstar singer closed the ceremony on Friday immediately after the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, with a performance from the first stage of the Eiffel Tower, singing a timeless classic: Edith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’amour.”

Dion was in excellent form as she belted out the soaring, clean notes, dressed in a stunning beaded white gown with tassels.

France’s president Emmanuel Macron has just about kept his counsel up to now but there is growing certainty that a slow tease comprising layers of confidentiality seductively dropped over recent days will end with a duet by Céline Dion and Lady Gaga at the glittering opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday night.

And not any old duet. The global superstars are expected to perform Édith Piaf’s ‘La Vie en Rose’, in a show of soft French power that a momentarily overwhelmed Macron evidently found rather difficult to keep to himself when lightly grillé about Dion’s Instagram posts.

“Apparently she has arrived in Paris, it’s great!” he confessed to the French television channel France 2. “I would be immensely happy if she could be at this opening ceremony, like all our compatriots.”

“I will not reveal anything, what [opening ceremony director] Thomas Jolly and all his teams have prepared”, Macron added with a gallic twinkle in his eye. “There is also a surprise.”

He concluded, with a smile: “I am not responsible for his schedule.”

Dion’s rumoured appearance would mark her first performance since she was forced to halt her touring schedule and step away from the spotlight after being diagnosed in December 2022 with Stiff Person Syndrome, a a rare, chronic neurological disorder that causes muscle stiffness and sometimes intense spasms. She last performed live in New York in the spring of 2020.

According to RTL, every effort has been made to keep the French-Canadian singer relaxed ahead of her comeback.

She arrived in Paris on a private jet trip from her home in Vegas and is staying in a sumptuous suite at the Royal Monceau on the Champs Elysee, from which Gaga, the American singer-song writer who was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanottav, was coincidentally also seen emerging this week, blowing kisses to her fans.

According to some media reports, Dion is being paid a tidy €2m fee and will be dressed in a pink and black feather cape from Dior. As for Gaga, the tight security around the Seine did not stop one intrepid fan posting a photograph of someone who looked very much like her by a white piano on a floating island on the river on Monday.

Neither women will find it difficult linguistically to perform “La Vie en Rose”. Dion was born in French-speaking Charlemagne, Quebec, a small town from Montreal.

Lady Gaga, whose mother is half Italian and half French, has described her mastery of the language as “merdique” but she has talked in the past of how her confidence in the language grows when she gets to practice.

Dion performed “The Power of the Dream” at the opening ceremony at the Atlanta games in 1996, a song written and produced specially for the occasion, and rumours that the 56-year-old was aiming for an Olympics comeback had swirled since she appeared on the cover of French Vogue in April.

Dion had spoken of a gruelling physical fitness program to regain her strength and health from a condition that she once likened to strangulation.

“I want to be my best self. I want to see the Eiffel Tower again,” she told Vogue.

As the sun sets behind the mountains in an exclusive neighbourhood 30 minutes from the Las Vegas strip, I can hear a recognisable voice singing behind a closed door.

“Is that Celine?” I ask.

Her security man guarding the hotel suite nods.

I am about to interview a musical megastar, and it sounds like she is in a cheerful mood.

But the iconic voice I can hear casually singing away is one that fans feared they might never hear again.

“I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time,” she shared in an Instagram video in December 2022.

“I have been diagnosed with a very rare neurological disorder.”

After that devastating announcement, Celine Dion pulled out of the remainder of her world tour, and has rarely been seen in public since.

The 52-year-old fashion chameleon stunned in one of her most out-of-this-world photo shoots to date, which featured her in a ‘glittering’ gold armor bodysuit. 

‘Live life by the golden rule,’ she captioned a shot of herself in the high-cut vintage Thierry Mugler garment, which emphasized her lean figure and long legs.

Her ombre blonde hair was pushed back entirely, as she sported a self-assured expression for the racy snap. 

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While opting for no accessorizes, the five-time Grammy winner demonstrated perfect posture and balanced on one of her tiptoes.   

The Canadian-born singer achieved a natural bronzy makeup look and radiated a healthy glow. 

On Friday, she posted a more up-close image, from the same day, but with an additional accessory on her right arm. 

As she maintained a soft pout, all eyes were on her jewel-encrusted sleeve, which came up to her shoulder. 

The bodysuit also included similar rows of studded gems along the hips and bust.

In April, she overjoyed fans by rewriting the lyrics to her monstrously successful 1997 hit, My Heart Will Go On, to encourage fans quarantine and stay home. 

The pop icon posted a brief video snippet of her music video from the hit, which was the love theme for the Oscar-winning film Titanic, next to which she wrote the slightly altered lyrics in both English and French. 

‘Near, far wherever you are… make sure you’re practicing social distancing!’ the songbird wrote, before repeating the same sentiment in French, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.