Shania Twain Details Grief She Felt After Divorce

Shania Twain says she feared she'd 'never get over' Mutt Lange divorce in Netflix dr.

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Singer/songwriter Shania Twain attends the 8th ceremony celebration of Mondays Dark at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on Dec. 13, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Gabe Ginsberg /Getty Images for Mondays Nighttime

Shania Twain feared she would "never go over" her divorce.

The That Don't Impress Me Much singer split from showtime husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange in 2008 after he had an affair with her best friend, Marie-Anne Thiebaud, and she recalled how the grief from their matrimony ending left her feeling every bit depression equally she did when her parents died in a machine crash in 1987.

She said: "When I lost Mutt, I guess I thought…I was thinking that the grief of that was… It was similarly intense to losing my parents. And y'all know, it was similar a death.

"It was like the death was the end, a permanent end to so many facets of my life. And I never got over my parents' death. Then I'1000 thinking, 'South***, I'm never going to get over this.' Like…how practise you get over that?

"So all I tin can exercise is determine how I'm going to carry on from there. How am I going to crawl out of this hole that I've fallen in? Just similar that, you know?"

Shania Twain and Robert Lange are pictured outside Dominion Theatre in London West End in February 2000. — Shania Twain and Robert Lange are pictured exterior Dominion Theatre in London W Terminate in February 2000. Photograph by Gareth Davies /Getty Images

The cease of her marriage came subsequently the Forever and Ever hitmaker – who went on to marry Marie-Anne's husband Frederic Thiebaud in 2011 – was afraid she'd never sing again after contracting Lyme disease when she was bitten by a tick while out horse riding in 2003.

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Speaking in her new Netflix documentary Not Merely a Daughter, she said: "The tick was infected with Lyme illness, and I did get Lyme disease.

"My symptoms were quite scary because before I was diagnosed, I was on phase very lightheaded. I was losing my balance, I was afraid I was gonna fall off the stage… I was having these very, very, very millisecond blackouts, simply regularly, every infinitesimal or every 30 seconds.

"My vocalism was never the same once more. I thought I'd lost my voice forever. I thought that was it, (and) I would never, ever sing again."

Shania – who has son Aja, xx, with Mutt – admitted she reached a point where she considered giving up her career.

She said: "In that search to make up one's mind what was causing this lack of command with my voice and this modify in my voice, I was facing a divorce. My husband leaves me for another woman.

"Now I'm at a whole other low. And I simply don't run into any point in going on with a music career."

But the Notwithstanding the One hitmaker eventually went back to work just admitted she was "petrified" about returning to the studio without Mutt, her former producer, by her side.

Reflecting on her 2017 album Now, she said: "It took a long time to be ready to write and tape again.

"It was really more about taking independence, (and) just being able to heed to myself back on my writing tapes was difficult… It was an practise of saying, 'OK, look, you tin can't just non always make music again because you don't have Mutt. You gotta but dive in.' And I was petrified, I actually was.

"So now I said, 'OK listen, I'm going to not only get back into the studio without him, I'm going to write all the music alone, and only detect myself again as individual creative, like I'd been all of my youth.'"