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The music producer had older children from a previous marriage and three kids with Celine, 14-year-old son René Charles and 5-year-old twins
Nelson and
Eddy. Now, Celine, 48, told
PEOPLE Magazine how she addressed their dad's death with the youngest left behind.
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After a couple of days had passed, the music legend threw her children a glitter and balloon-filled party, during which the told them about the sad news.
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"I did not want to relate the passing to doctors and have them be afraid," Celine said, so with the help of Disney — specifically, the movie Up — she told the twins that "Papa" had "gone up" with the help of balloons, much like in the animated motion picture.
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"It's the thing I'm most proud of," she said about easing her kids into the concept of death.
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"I see René in all three of them," she said about her children. "Not one moment do I feel like they're looking for him and questioning."
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