'I want to die in your arms' - René Angélil

Errrrrhhhhh so sweet! Yet sad.  The singer has bravely opened up about how she and her family are coping with René's illness battling with throat cancer, and Celine Dion explained why she is returning to her Las Vegas residency now following a year-long hiatus.

"I didn't want to be here at first, I don't need it. Don't get me wrong, I love singing for people, but I have priorities," Celine told USA Today of her return to Las Vegas. "But René really gave me a gift. All my grieving, it was during this last year. I think I've got this. For now. When it hits me, it's going to hit me.

"But my biggest job is to tell my husband, we're fine. I'll take care of our kids. You'll watch us from another spot."

René, Celine's husband of 21 years, was diagnosed with throat cancer in December 2013. It is the second time the music manager has battled cancer, but sadly this time it appears René is fighting for his life.

"We have asked (doctors) many times, how long does he have, three weeks, three months? René wants to know. But they say they don't know," Celine explained.

The 47-year-old says that she and her husband have had many emotional conversations over the past months, with René sharing his greatest fears and wishes for the future.

"I'll say, 'You're scared? I understand. Talk to me about it,'" Celine confided. "And René says to me, 'I want to die in your arms.' OK, fine, I'll be there, you'll die in my arms."

The couple have three children together, 14-year-old René-Charles, and four-year-old twins Nelson and Eddy, and Celine admits that it has often been difficult for their eldest son to see his father in such poor health, although the twins "don't know their father in any other state".