Merriweather wrote the song with Eg White for his 2009 album, "Love & Water" which featured guest vocals from Adele. He reportedly became upset after learning Dion praised Adele for the song, according to Noise 11.

Dion has recorded a version of the song as the title track and lead single for her comeback album, which is set to be released in October. Merriweather posted a new Facebook update addressing the controversy.

He writes, "I want to clear some things up. In hindsight, i was wrong to say that Celine 'stole' my song, from a songwriting point of view this is not the case at all� and really was not the point i was trying to make�

"It turns out that she didn't realize that 'Water and a Flame' was my song from my album 'Love & War', instead she thought it was an Adele song.