Celine Dion Loved Ariana Grande’s Impression of Her So Much She Told Brother Frankie ‘I Peed Myself’

An artist’s dream is having one of their heroes acknowledge their work. Or, if they’re really lucky it seems, that north star maybe wets themself a little bit out of joy. According to Frankie Grande, that’s pretty much what happened to his sister Ariana Grande when Celine Dion paid the “Hate That I Made You Love Me” singer the ultimate compliment.

“The first time I met Celine Dion was right after Ariana was on your show and she did her Celine impersonation,” Frankie told Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night’s (June 11) Tonight Show. “And so I was there in Vegas and Celine comes literally running up to me and she’s like, ‘Oh my God, Frankie, you have to tell your sister when she did me on Jimmy Fallon I peed.’ She goes, ‘I was laughing so hard I peed myself. I peed.’”

Frankie, who showed off his flawless Gollum and Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions elsewhere in the interview, then did his own pretty great take on Dion, acting out Dion’s excited reaction to his sister’s tribute.

Dion has apparently loved Ari’s impressions of her on Fallon’s show, a spot on impersonation that Grande has busted out several times in late night, including by singing the Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” as Dion in 2015 and dueting with Fallon on her Beauty and the Beast theme song, not to mention on SNL in 2024 in a fake UFC theme song sketch. Clearly Dion is a major influence on Grande, since she also sang a bit of the Canadian pop diva’s 1989 classic “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” in an episode of Carpool Karaoke in 2018.

Frankie also had plenty of his own things to plug, including his new autobiography, Supergay! A Memoir, as well as his role in the Tony-nominated Celine Dion/Titanic parody Titaníque.

Ariana is in the midst of her eagerly anticipated Eternal Sunshine tour, which kicked off last weekend in Oakland, Calif. with a three-show run. The outing will hit Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Saturday (June 13) for the first of two shows there, before moving on to three nights (June, 17, 19, 24) at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

Watch Frankie Grande on The Tonight Show below.