Tearful & Angry Celine Dion Slams Katrina Response Delays

Celine Dion appeared via satellite on ‘Larry King Live’ on his Hurricane Katrina three-hour ‘How You Can Help’ special show after pledging $1 million. Diminishing her gift, Dion said fresh drinking water is more meaningful than her cash and issued stinging criticism of the federal response. “There’s people still there waiting to be rescued. To me that is not acceptable,” she yelled. “I know they have reasons for it. But I don’t want to hear those reasons. … How can it be so easy to send planes in another country to kill everybody in a second and destroy lives. We need to serve our country.” Read more.


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| Posted on September 4, 2005 at 12:51 am in Uncategorized

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