NEW YORK -
Celine Dion has finally responded to Kate Winslet's admission that "My Heart Will Go On" makes her feel "like throwing up."
While Dion, who had her biggest hit to date with the "Titanic" ballad, defended the song, she also admits that there is one way in which it makes her "sick" too.
"'My Heart Will Go On' gave me the opportunity to be associated with a classic that will live forever," Dion said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show Monday morning.
"If I just count how many times I've sung it, maybe it'll get me sick. If she feels tired just hearing it, and like throwing up, I'm glad she was not the one singing it."
Dion, 44, was responding to comments that Winslet, 36, made while promoting the release of the movie "Titanic 3-D," fifteen years after the original arrived in theaters.
When asked by MTV News about the ubiquitous tune, Winslet revealed that the song made her do "a massive internal eye roll" and furthered that it even turned her stomach.
In her interview Tuesday, Dion explained that she has been literally sick lately, with a virus that affected her vocal cords.
"[My voice] was just choppy a little bit," said Dion, explaining why she opted to cancel five weeks of her popular Las Vegas stage show.
"It's hard to do a show, but it's much harder to cancel the show," said Dion. "We disappointed a lot of people. It was hard."
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