A House Packed to the Brim
The Dion family had very little money, and with so many children in the family, the house was always very overcrowded. “We were three, four in the same bed, I did not have a bedroom,” Céline once told CBS News.
“Up the stairs, before going in the bedrooms, there was a little ramp. And my bed was there. So everybody went up, they saw me, and I could wave goodbye and goodnight.” However, Céline doesn’t recall a troubled or particularly difficult childhood. “We were given love and affection and support,” she told Vanity Fair. “What else did we need?”