Is a video showing Celine Dion confessing to drinking the blood of children real? No, that's not true: The altered clip posted on social media uses footage from a documentary that shows Dion having a seizure and recovering. She does not say that she ate children or drank their blood in the original video.
The claim appeared in an Aug. 22, 2026, article published by The People's Voice titled "Celine Dion Begs Forgiveness In Shock Cannibal Video: 'I Eat Children To Stay Alive'" (archived here) which opened:
Celine Dion is begging for your forgiveness. Not for faking her illness. Not for the years of deception. For drinking the blood of children.
Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail:
Celine Dion Begs Forgiveness In Shock Cannibal Video: "I Eat Children To Stay Alive"
Celine Dion is begging for your forgiveness. Not for faking her illness. Not for the years of deception. For drinking the blood of children.
The image of Dion with an inhaler in her nose was taken from her 2024 documentary "I Am: Celine Dion" (archived here), which shows her having a seizure and recovering in its aftermath.
In the documentary, Dion is given the inhaler as she is stricken by the seizure. The website Brightside posted screenshots from the documentary and the same image from the article and documentary was used in the People's Voice article. This is a screenshot of the image posted on the website Brightside.me (archived here):
(Image source: post on Brightside.me.)
This image used in The People's Voice article is flipped from the original:
(Image source: The People's Voice.)
Beginning at 0:30 in the video embedded in The People's Voice article, there is a clip of Dion from behind. She has a towel draped over her shoulders and she does not ever turn to face the camera. A voice is heard saying, "I ate children. I drank blood," while subtitle text shows the same two sentences. This is what a screenshot from the video looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: The People's Voice.)
The footage is also taken from Dion's documentary but is flipped. In the original footage Dion does not say "I ate children," nor that she "drank blood." Video clips from the documentary show her recovering from a seizure. Television show Access Hollywood posted the clip in question from the "I Am: Celine Dion" documentary on its YouTube account (archived here) on June 25, 2024. Beginning at 9:13 in the video, Dion has a towel wrapped around her back. Here is what Dion actually says:
Every time something like this happens and it it makes you feel so embarrassed and so, like I don't know how to express it. Like, it's just you don't like to not have control of yourself.
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