Adele broke down in tears after seeing her hero Celine Dion in the audience at her Las Vegas show.
The British star shared an emotional embrace with the Canadian singer during her performance at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Saturday night.
More than a decade ago, the same venue played host to Dion, known as the queen of power ballads, whose songs include My Heart Will Go On, Think Twice and It’s All Coming Back To Me Now.
In footage shared online, Adele can be seen breaking down in tears as she approaches her singing idol.
After briefly talking while holding each other, the Rolling In The Deep singer returned to the floor and told the audience: “Give it up for Ms Celine Dion.”
An emotional Dion can be seen wiping her eyes with a tissue before she stood up and waved at the audience while Adele continued to sing her hit When We Were Young.
The singer has been vocal about her love for Dion, hailing her as “Queen Celine” in an Instagram post in 2018 after attending one of her performances.
She also told Vogue in 2021 that her most “prized possession” is a framed piece of gum chewed by the Canadian singer.
“James Corden, who’s a friend of mine but also does ‘Carpool Karaoke’, which I did, he did it with [Dion] and knew how much of a fan of hers I was,” she told the fashion magazine. “And so he made her spit her gum into a piece of paper and framed it for me.”
“And it’s my proudest possession!” she added.
Adele returned to the Las Vegas venue this weekend to continue her residency after taking a break to perform a series of shows in Munich in a purpose-built outdoor arena.
“Weekends With Adele” launched at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in November 2022 and is due to conclude next month.
Her run of sell-out shows at the venue, which seats around 4,000 people, has been a success but has also taken its toll on the singer.
In July, she announced she will take a “big break” from music after her run of upcoming shows.
Dion made a triumphant return to live singing in the summer to close the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, having had to cancel her 2021 Las Vegas residency due to health concerns.
The following year she revealed that she had been diagnosed with stiff person syndrome (SPS), a rare autoimmune and neurological disorder that causes progressive muscular stiffness and spasms.
Dion admitted that, before her diagnosis, she was taking a potentially lethal cocktail of the muscle relaxant drug diazepam, commonly known as Valium, in order to get through live performances.
“I did not know, honestly, that it could kill me,” she said in a December 2022 broadcast interview.
In March 2003, Dion launched her first residency at The Colosseum, which played for 717 shows through to December 2007.
She returned to the venue for her second stint in March 2011 and played 424 shows before wrapping it up in June 2019.