Wanna know what freaking out looks like? Here ya go! Between almost throwing up due to nervousness and trying not to fangirl, I successfully didn’t embarrass myself. She is incredible and I am beyond lucky to have gotten the chance to meet her. Thank you @scottsibley & @kaitlyn_dutton for an incredible night! That was one hell of a birthday gift! 💞
#thisis35 #dyinginside #nervousAF #celinedion #lasvegas #colosseum #ceasarspalace #illdiecomplete #sungmyheartout #cried - Kristy Carter
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Celine Dion meets fan who traveled across globe to meet her
Reidun Vevelstad is Celine Dion’s biggest fan in the community named for Vevelstad’s family in northern Norway.
Not such a big deal, as only 400 people live in the tiny farming hamlet.
But Reidun is also Celine’s biggest fan in the country, the region and — likely — anywhere in the world.
At age 18, Reidun has for years suffered from spina bifida. She is confined to a wheelchair. Her greatest joy is listening to Celine’s music and watching her videos.
“Her biggest dream has been to go to one of her concerts and meet her,” her mother, Sigrid, says. “She says that this is a bigger dream than to be able to walk. That was her dream before she discovered Celine Dion.”
Two years ago, almost to the day, Reidun spent all of her savings for tickets to a Celine show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Her family pitched in, too, to fulfill this lifelong promise. They booked a Wednesday performance, and also reserved flights to Vegas and hotel rooms at Caesars Palace.
Sigrid wrote a letter to Celine through an artist friend hers who knows Veronica Bocelli, wife of opera icon and frequent Celine duet partner Andrea Bocelli. The email simply asked for time with Celine at the show’s meet-and-greet, if possible, or a visit from her during the actual performance.
In that letter, Sigrid told of her then-16-year-old daughter’s condition and said, “She’s been dreaming that you will come up to her seat so she can give you a hug,” and listed the family’s seat numbers for the performance.
In the organizing of the visit, Sigrid’s e-mail was sent by Bocelli’s camp to Larry Ruvo and Michael Severino of Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits of Nevada and Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
It is not a far stretch that Severino and Ruvo would be looped into such an experience. They are both well-connected to concert promoters AEG Live (which produces Celine’s show) and Caesars Entertainment officials, along with Bocelli and Celine, who have performed at the annual Keep Memory Alive Power of Love fundraising gala. All was set for the great event.
During the show that followed, Celine gave her typically transcendent performance. Reidun recorded the entire experience, on her phone and her mother’s.
At the end, I moved to Reidun and leaned in to ask how she felt.
She smiled, held up her phone and said, “I have her with me forever.”
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