Amazon’s Celine Dion Doc Is Devastating, But At Least We Get One Cute Scene of Her Parenting Her Sons

The new Celine Dion documentary, I Am: Celine Dion—which is now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video—is a difficult watch, to say the least. In fact, much of the film is nothing short of devastating. But thankfully, there are a few moments of much-needed levity sprinkled throughout—like the scene where Dion reprimands her children in the way any mother would.

Directed by Irene Taylor (Beware the Slenderman, The Final Inch), this intimate documentary offers viewers a raw, honest, and, at times, uncomfortable look at Dion’s struggle with her rare neurological disorder, Stiff-Person Syndrome, or SPS, which forced the renowned singer to cancel her residency in Las Vegas. It could not be more clear that Dion is in excruciating pain, both inside and out. More than once, viewers will watch Dion endure an SPS episode—in which her muscle lock up, and she whimpers in pain—on camera. But Taylor captures the sweet moments, too. One of those moments comes when Dion and her two 13-year-old twin boys, Eddy and Nelson, make a “Get Well” video for their butler who’s come down with COVID.

For whatever reason (perhaps related to an inside joke), Dion has her sons draw faces on the surface of shelled coconuts. While sitting on the couch to film the video, one of her boys starts picking at the hairs on the coconut shell, getting them all over the floor. In a moment of pure, relatable parenting, Dion admonishes her kid for making a mess.

“Stop peeling! I’m going to make you vacuum,” Dion tells him.

“I’m sorry, sorry,” he says back.

“Don’t be sorry,” Dion replies, in a voice anyone with a mom will be familiar with. “Don’t do it.”

“It’s just a little,” her son responds.

Later, in a true mom fashion, we see Dion herself vacuuming up the coconut hairs herself. Turns out that was an empty threat!

It’s silly, but it’s a moment that lets the audience relate to Dion. She may be an international, best-selling superstar—and she may be dealing with a very rare and devastating neurological disease at the moment—but she’s also a mom just like any other mom.

I Am: Celine Dion is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, free to anyone with an Amazon Prime subscription.