Shania Twain speaks about her Lyme disease battle
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Shania Twain shares her struggle after she was diagnosed with Lyme disease during her 113-date Up! Tour.
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Shania Twain opens up about her battle with Lyme disease
Shania Twain gets candid about her Lyme disease battle in her new Netflix documentary titled Not Just A Girl.
Twain has previously revealed that she contracted the bacteria illness after a tick bit her while she was horseback riding in Norfolk, Virginia in 2003.
The infection left the country superstar with nerve damage to her vocal cords. She temporarily lost her voice but feared she would never be able to perform again.
Twain said in her latest rock- documentary, ‘My symptoms were quite scary because before I was diagnosed, I was on stage very dizzy. I was losing my balance, I was afraid I was gonna fall off the stage.’
The 56-year-old singer added, ‘I was having these very, very, very millisecond blackouts, but regularly, every minute or every 30 seconds.’
The Queen of Country Pop further admitted, ‘My voice was never the same again.’
Twain then went on to recall, ‘I thought I’d lost my voice forever. I thought that was it, [and] I would never, ever sing again.’
The You’re Still The One hitmaker underwent several invasive throat surgeries after she developed the voice disorder dysphonia.
Back in 2019, Twain confessed in an interview with Extra, ‘I had to have an operation that was very intense and it’s an open-throat operation, very different from a vocal cord operation. 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.’
Shania Twain details after learning her husband cheated on her
Shania Twain ended her 15 years of marriage with Grammy-winning producer Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange after she learned about his affair with her secretary and friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud.
She said in the documentary, ‘In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce. My husband leaves me for another woman.’
Twain continued, ‘Now I’m at a whole other low. And I just don’t see any point in going on with a music career.’
In a strange turn of events, she started dating Marie-Anne’s former husband, Frédéric Thiébaud in 2010 over their shared grief. They tied the knot a year later.
