Shania Twain talks about how her divorce from Robert has affected her. “Mutt”Lange had a profound impact on her future.Netflix documentaryNot just for girls.”It was similarly intense to losing my parents,”The “From This Moment On” singer, 56,In a trailerreleased July 20. “I thought I had lost my voice forever. I thought that was it.”
They met when Lange contacted Twain after he watched her 1993 music video. “What Made You Say That.”In40 Days That Changed Country Music, Twain explained, “He called me up and said, ‘Look, there’s a quality in your voice that I really like.”She continued, “He said, ‘You know, we really should get together and see what we can do as songwriters.'”
Lange has been a collaborator with many prominent artists including AC/DC (Maroon 5), Bryan Adams (Lady Gaga), and Muse. Twain added pop to the music of a South African producer. “As a producer, [Mutt] is very much a director,”Twain saidThe Guardian. “He was driving the direction of the sound. He didn’t drive the direction of my voice and never tried to change me … He drove the instrument choices.”
They were able to create togetherThe Woman in MeAlbum, which was a huge success and won a Grammy (via Official Charts). The couple married within six months and had their son Eja by 2001. “I think we make a great team,”The Grammy-winning performer explains in40 Days That Changed Country Music. “Obviously, we love each other.”
Twain discovered in 2008 that Lange had been having an affair with Marie-Anne Thiébaud, her personal assistant and close friend. After 15 years, Twain discovered Lange had cheated with her. Twain admitted that he was in denial and asked Lange or Marie-Anne for explanations. “I called her up,”Twain explains onEllen DeGeneres Show,adding, “I wanted to give her the opportunity to tell me herself without me accusing her … And she said, ‘No … I don’t understand why you’d think I would ever hide anything from you.'”
Marie-Anne Lange and Lange deny having an affair. Twain sent an email to Marie-Anne in response to Marie Anne’s refusal to answer Twain’s calls and to change her phone number. “Please leave us in peace … If you could see me crying and suffering, maybe you would have pity. Find love somewhere else, from someone else that isn’t hurting two families so much.”
Due to her heartbreak, she suffered a severe physical injury that could have a serious impact on her singing career. “Suffering does not discriminate. No one is above this type of low,”She explained the details onOprah. “There were days when I really just was like … ‘I just don’t even really care if tomorrow comes” (viaOprah.com).
Twain also noted that her anxiety had a negative effect on her Lyme condition. She shared her story. Belfast Telegraph, “I lost my voice from Lyme disease. The stress of the divorce added to the dysphonia, which is a tension around the larynx. The divorce is part of it, but it wasn’t the root of it.”
Her career was at risk from multiple throat surgeries, and she was afraid of losing her voice. Twain suffered a loss of her voice from invasive surgery. However, it gave her a new outlook. “gravel”Tone she loves. “I think it’s kind of sexy … I’m never going to have my old voice again. I’m okay with that. I’ve found a new voice. And I like it.”The former couple split after 17 years of marriage.
Despite the heartache, Twain leaned on Marie-Anne’s ex-husband, Frédéric Thiébaud, for support in the aftermath, and the pairThey became more close because of their shared experiences.”The person to comfort me was Fred [Thiebaud] because he’s been through the exact same thing,”She explained the details onOprah.
A strenuous shared experience with Frédéric blossomed into unexpected love, Twain said onEllen DeGeneres Show.“We slowly became very, very good friends. We had many months of just trying to make sense of everything. Holding each other up was a very difficult time emotionally for both of us … And really found something very beautiful in the end and unexpected.”She wed the 52-year-old Swiss businessman in 2011.
The Netflix documentary also shows how she managed to cross genres such as country music and pop. Twain sold more than 100,000,000 copies worldwide and had three consecutive diamond albums.Not just for girlsis available on Netflix starting July 26.