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Shania Twain is surely one of country music\u2019s most famous faces with a dazzling career. According to Rolling Stone, Twain has sold more than 85 million albums and recorded monster hits like \u201cYou\u2019re Still the One\u201d and \u201cThat Don\u2019t Impress Me Much.\u201d But with so much success, Twain, 51, has suffered a mountain of tragedy and heartbreak in her lifetime.<\/p>\n

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Read up on her tragic life story and see where she\u2019s headed next.
\nIn a 1998 Rolling Stone interview, Shania Twain recalled her hardscrabble childhood that, at times, included her going to school hungry on multiple occasions. Though she was jealous at the time of her classmates\u2019 more appetizing lunches, she told the mag that it wasn\u2019t \u201ca bad thing at all.\u201d She even said, \u201cI don\u2019t regret my childhood. Learning to make mustard sandwiches was something just to get me through the embarrassment, to help me avoid humiliation.\u201d
\nShe also claims to have only feared that her teachers would discover how bad off her family was and she\u2019d be taken away. She never looked down on her parents and particularly her stepfather, Jerry Twain, who was in and out of work. \u201cIt was a pride thing,\u201d she told Rolling Stone. \u201cI respect him for that, and I don\u2019t feel bad for myself, even for a second.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In order to help kids who suffer from the same experiences she did, Twain launched the Shania Kids Can Charity Foundation, a program that identifies kids in need for various reasons and provides discreet assistance. The charity also provides children with lunches, field trip expenses, moral support, hygiene needs, clothing and other educational needs such as homework assistance.
\nFor Twain, life wasn\u2019t easy by any means for her and her four siblings. In a riveting interview with ABC in 2011, Twain shared that she was traumatized by things she witnessed in her childhood and that she was abused by her stepfather, Jerry Twain. But it was Shania\u2019s mother Sharon who apparently endured the worst. Shania recalled one particular moment where Jerry nearly drowned Sharon in a toilet bowl. \u201cI thought he\u2019d killed her,\u201d Shania said. \u201cShe was unconscious, she was limp, hanging from his \u2026 he had her hair in his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twain said she went into shock at the thought of her mother dying. \u201cAlso, through the humiliation of how I thought she had been killed, by drowning in a toilet seat,\u201d she added noting her parents bickered and fought over financial problems. \u201cIt was very, very obviously very hard to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the abuse left Shania confused for multiple reasons. She had both love and fear for her father. \u201cIt was the Jekyll and Hyde in him that was the greatest torture,\u201d she said. \u201cI loved him and I respected so much what he did for us, being the hard worker, he set a great example. So I\u2019m still left confused. I\u2019m baffled by all of that, I really am.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shania Twain also told Rolling Stone that her mother battled depression and sometimes didn\u2019t get out of bed. The years of abuse and struggling to make ends meet seemingly took a toll on Sharon from time to time. Shania penned her first song about her mother, \u201cMama Won\u2019t You Come Out to Play,\u201d which she told told Good Morning America was about her mother\u2019s apparent choice to isolate herself. Sadly, Shania said that her mother died before she ever asked her about it.<\/p>\n

Shania somehow hoped the song would break through to her mother saying, \u201cMy mother was sad a lot of the time and really just didn\u2019t have the courage to get out and face life, and so that\u2019s why I wrote that song inviting my own mother to come out and play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the ups and downs in their family, Sharon fully supported her daughter\u2019s ambitious career in music. Shania said without her support, she never would have taken those steps to make it happen. \u201cI would have shied away from it,\u201d the Grammy winner explained. \u201cI would have backed off from my fear of being the center of attention, \u2019cause it\u2019s really not something I\u2019m comfortable with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tragedy struck Shania Twain once again on November 1, 1987. It\u2019s the day her parents Jerry and Sharon Twain were killed in a car accident, according to the Vh1\u2019s Behind the Music. The couple was heading to a job site when a truck carrying timber crossed into their lane and collided with them head on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you hit an emotional bottom like that and come face to face with the fragility of life and how fleeting it can be, then you realize nothing else matters,\u201d Shania said. \u201cYour priorities completely change.\u201d Faced with a crisis, Shania set aside her growing music career to tend to her two teenage brothers and sister. up to the plate to care for her two teenage brothers and sister.<\/p>\n

Shania told the CBC it was a turning point in her life that matured her. \u201c[It] brought me up to where I should have been in the first place at that age,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t raise them, they moved in with me for a couple of years after my parents died. We kind of all bunked together, took care of each other\u2026 I learned a lot from it. I matured a lot from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shania Twain\u2019s 17-year marriage to Robert \u201cMutt\u201d Lange immediately unraveled in 2008 after he confessed to cheating and falling in love with her best friend and personal assistant Marie-Anne Theibaud. But the break up was deeper than love, as Lange had a hand in producing much of Twain\u2019s music, and is also the father of her only son, Eja Lange.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to live,\u201d Twain told Oprah Winfrey (per People) in 2011 about the devastating break up. She said she tried to confront Theibaud several times, first in a letter, pleading her to \u201cfind love somewhere else from someone else,\u201d and then later face-to face. According to the Daily Mail, the momentous confrontation fizzled when Twain\u2019s nerves ruined the moment. \u201cI had a total panic attack,\u201d she said. \u201cI just told her that she was a bad person \u2014 that\u2019s all I could get out! When I left her, I thought, \u2018You\u2019re such a wimp, you coward!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, Twain found some levity in the situation despite the mountains of heartache it caused her. When Andy Cohen, host of Watch What Happens Live asked her what she would say to her ex-husband if she ever ran into him again, Twain quipped (via Us Weekly), \u201cI wish I\u2019d never met you.\u201d The pair\u2019s divorce was finalized in 2010.<\/p>\n

Through her devastating break up, only one person could relate to the pain Shania Twain was experiencing: Marie-Anne Theibaud\u2019s own husband, Frederic Theibaud, who she left behind. Through the drama, the pair bonded and eventually formed an unexpected romance. In 2009, just over a year after her marriage fell apart, Twain let fans know that her life was beginning to take shape once again.<\/p>\n

According to Twain\u2019s personal blog (via People), Twain called Theibauc \u201ca dear friend and true gentleman,\u201d who \u201cunderstands me better than anyone.\u201d She also said that their children, her son Eja and his daughter Johanna, had grown close.<\/p>\n

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In 2011, Twain and her new man made their love official. \u201cThey were married at sunset in Rincon, Puerto Rico, in front of 40 of their closest family and friends,\u201d a rep for the country star told People. Although few details about the ceremony are known, she hasn\u2019t been shy in expressing her feelings for Frederic. \u201cI am excited to share some personal news with you; I\u2019m in love!\u201d Twain wrote in a short letter to fans. \u201cFrederic Nicolas Thiebaud has been a true gift to me as a compassionate, understanding friend and over time, an amazing love has blossomed from this precious friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becoming a mega celebrity isn\u2019t always easy. Sometimes fans become crazed or even obsessed. In 2011, Twain\u2019s longtime stalker Giovanni Palumbo pleaded guilty to three counts of failure to comply with a court order and criminal harassment, reports the Daily Mail. During the trial both Twain and Palumbo took the stand to explain their points of view.<\/p>\n

During court proceedings, it was revealed that Palumbo sent numerous letters to the star, visited her family\u2019s residence without invitation, attended Twain\u2019s grandmother\u2019s funeral and was arrested at an awards ceremony for attempting to deliver a letter. \u201cI\u2019m torn emotionally because I have compassion for anybody who\u2019s reaching out in need \u2014 fans often do that,\u201d Twain said during cross examination. \u201cI still have the fear and anxiety of being contacted in the future by Mr. Palumbo. And I do want it to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palumbo originally pleaded not guilty to the charges but changed his plea after hearing how emotionally upset Twain had become over the years. According to the New York Daily News, Palumbo was sentenced to three-years probation and was ordered to stay at least half a mile away from Twain, her family and team of workers. In addition to continuing his counseling, he isn\u2019t allowed to contact Twain anymore.<\/p>\n

After the dramatic collapse of her marriage, Shania Twain lost something just as important \u2014 her voice. Due to what she described to Oprah Winfrey (via Billboard) as the \u201cfears and anxieties throughout [her] whole life,\u201d Twain developed dysphonia, a condition that causes muscles to squeeze the voice. As a result, she said she was losing her instrument \u201cslowly and progressively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twain told Entertainment Weekly that her condition was particularly depressing, because it wasn\u2019t \u201ca straight ahead problem I could just have an operation for.\u201d At the time, she said she \u201creally believed that [she] would never sing again.\u201d Indeed, the process of getting her voice back into shape was long and hard. She compared the journey to an athlete going to rehab for an injury. \u201cI had to learn how to use my voice again,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was all there, but I had to learn how to use the tools all over again from scratch, and it was very frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking with Rolling Stone in 2017, Twain said her voice was left different from years prior. In fact, it\u2019s deeper. \u201cI\u2019m a different singer now,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was a lot of coming to terms with that. It\u2019s been one of the obstacles in my life I\u2019ve just had to learn to live with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shania Twain\u2019s dysphonia was a rare complication of Lyme disease, which the country megastar has suffered from for years. \u201cI had to have an operation that was very intense and it\u2019s an open-throat operation, very different from a vocal cord operation \u2026 and I had to have two of them, so that was really, really, really tough and I survived that, meaning emotionally I survived, and am just ready to keep going,\u201d she told Extra in June 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re a singer and it\u2019s your voice, it is just a terrible, terrible feeling. It was a great, great loss, so I had to come to terms with losing the voice that I had and rediscovering my new one. It\u2019s been a long, a really rewarding, journey,\u201d she said. Twain explained that, although her voice won\u2019t be what it once was, therapy has taught her to \u201cmanipulate\u201d her voice and \u201cgive in to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twain took a 15-year hiatus from music to help her recovery, but her Las Vegas residency, \u201cShania Twain: Let\u2019s Go,\u201d opens in Dec. 2019, and fans should expect the singer they know and love. \u201cOf course I will play the classics \u2026 I think probably \u2018That Don\u2019t Impress Me Much\u2019 is one of my favorite ones to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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