Shania Twain is willing to forgive, but that doesn't mean she'll forget. In a conversation with Great company with Jamie Laing podcast this week, the “That Don't Impress Me Much” singer revealed that she doesn't hate her ex-husband — reclusive producer Robert “Mutt” Lange (Celine Dion, AC/DC) — for his affair with close her friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, but she also hasn't forgotten the betrayal.
Twain, 58, was married to Lange, 75, from 1993 to 2008 before they divorced and later married her then-husband Thiébaud, Frédéric Thiébaud, in 2011.
“Forgiveness is in the family of departure. But forgiveness, more specifically for me anyway, is not necessarily forgetting,” said Twain, who has a 22-year-old son, Eja, D'Angelo Lange, with her ex. “It's about understanding the other person and that can mean they're wrong. You may forever believe that whatever they did was wrong.''
So, Twain said, he doesn't hate Lang for his mistake. “It's his fault, not mine,” he said. “So sad for him that he made such a big mistake that he has to live with. And I don't know what that is, but it's not… That's not my burden.”
Twain also opened up about the effects of Lyme disease on her vocal chords and the experimental surgery she underwent to treat the atrophy caused by the incurable disorder, as well as the abusive household she grew up in that led her to drop out of childhood home at 13 She said her late stepfather, Jerry Twain, is someone she can forgive, understanding that he “wasn't well.”
“I understand that it wasn't good, that you don't behave in certain ways unless something is wrong with you. There is something wrong with your stability,” he said. “I feel bad that he had these problems. So it's not about him, not about, you know… So it's very hard to hate or not be able to forgive someone you believe in.” Jerry Twain and the singer's mother, Sharon, died in a car accident in 1987.
Listen to Twain Big industry (discussion on forgiveness begins at 33:40) below.
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