Twain tells Oprah: I feared for my voice
Source: Agencies |
May 5, 2011, Thursday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
COUNTRY singer Shania Twain has said that she was so shattered by the collapse of her marriage that she feared she would never sing again.
In her first TV interview in five years, Twain told Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday that she became "an emotional mess" when she found out in 2008 that her best friend and her husband had fallen for each other.
"I figured mentally that I would never sing again," the five-time Grammy Award winner told Winfrey. Twain said she not only lost her husband, but her producer and co-writer when she split with Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
"I hadn't written a song without this man in 14 years .... How do I even get started?" she said in an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Twain, whose 1997 album "Come on Over" was a huge crossover hit, revealed that she also suffers from dysphonia, an ailment where the muscles squeeze the voice box. "My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice. I was losing it slowly and progressively."
Twain chronicles the demise of her 14-year marriage and her fight to get her voice back in a new book "From This Moment On" and a documentary series "Why Not?" that debuts on Sunday on Winfrey's cable TV network.
In her memoir and TV documentary, the Canadian singer recounts how she grew up poor and witnessed her step-father physically abuse her mother on a regular basis only to see them both die in a car accident, leaving Twain to raise her siblings.
Twain called her husband's betrayal "a trigger crisis."
Eventually, she found solace with Frederic Thiebaud, the husband of the woman who was once her best friend. The two married on January 1.
In her first TV interview in five years, Twain told Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday that she became "an emotional mess" when she found out in 2008 that her best friend and her husband had fallen for each other.
"I figured mentally that I would never sing again," the five-time Grammy Award winner told Winfrey. Twain said she not only lost her husband, but her producer and co-writer when she split with Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
"I hadn't written a song without this man in 14 years .... How do I even get started?" she said in an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Twain, whose 1997 album "Come on Over" was a huge crossover hit, revealed that she also suffers from dysphonia, an ailment where the muscles squeeze the voice box. "My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice. I was losing it slowly and progressively."
Twain chronicles the demise of her 14-year marriage and her fight to get her voice back in a new book "From This Moment On" and a documentary series "Why Not?" that debuts on Sunday on Winfrey's cable TV network.
In her memoir and TV documentary, the Canadian singer recounts how she grew up poor and witnessed her step-father physically abuse her mother on a regular basis only to see them both die in a car accident, leaving Twain to raise her siblings.
Twain called her husband's betrayal "a trigger crisis."
Eventually, she found solace with Frederic Thiebaud, the husband of the woman who was once her best friend. The two married on January 1.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
