MONTREAL — When three surviving Dionne quintuplets won a $4-million settlement from the Ontario government in 1998, Cécile Dionne never dreamed she would end up penniless, in a shabby seniors’ home in Montreal North, living as a ward of the state. And it’s difficult to know them,” she said Thursday, in the first media interview surviving sisters Cécile and Annette have given in 18 years. Both sisters have had double hip replacements and suffer from macular degeneration but Annette appears sturdier and her vision loss is less advanced. About four years ago, Cécile was declared incapacitated by Quebec’s Public Curator, which made her a ward of the state. “How incredibly tragic this is,” said Carlo Tarini, a public relations consultant involved in obtaining the Dionnes’ $4-million settlement.

Source: National Post October 22, 2016 12:00 UTC