Editing The Singing Nun (section)

== Personal life ==
Deckers reconnected with Annie Pécher, whom she had known while at the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)|University of Louvain]]. They developed a strong relationship,<ref name="Gubin2006" /> and shared an apartment until their deaths.<ref>Stephanie Mansfield, "The Singing Nun" in ''The Washington Post'', 6 April 1978.</ref>

Frustrated by rumours that the relationship was sexual, Deckers wrote:
<blockquote>People at my record company think that two women who live together must be lesbians. They assert even that nuns in convents are in love. I deny these rumors as I testify against every creepy spirit. The answer is still obvious that I am not homosexual. I am loyal and faithful to Annie, but that is a whole other love in the Lord. Anyone who cannot understand this can go to the devil!<ref>{{cite book |last=Dominique |first=Luc |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb33083674c |title=Vivre sa vérité |publisher=Desclée |year=1968 |location=Paris}}</ref></blockquote>

Biographer Catherine Sauvat asserts that despite this denial, Deckers did go on subsequently to have a sexual relationship with Pécher, though only after several years of life together.<ref>Sauvat, Catherine (2009). ''Soeur Sourire'' (in French). France Loisirs, 2009, p. 104.</ref>