Shania Twain has previously been left fearing she’d never be able to sing again following her lengthy health battle.
The Man! I Feel Like A Woman hitmaker, who turned 58 on August 28, has opened up about her struggles over the years.
She was ready to go on tour in 2003 when she went for a horse ride that changed her life.
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“The tick was infected with Lyme disease, and I did get Lyme disease,” she said while filming her Netflix documentary Not Just a Girl.
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“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.
“I was having these very, very, very millisecond blackouts, but regularly, every minute or every 30 seconds.”
The illness also took a toll on her singing voice resulting in her inability to control her vocals.
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The country star explained: “My voice was never the same again. I thought I’d lost my voice forever. I thought that was it, [and] I would never, ever sing again.”
As well as her health issues, Shania was also dealing with the breakdown of her marriage to her longtime producer and songwriting partner Robert Lange.
She and the rock producer had a professional relationship before marrying in 1993. They also had one son together named Aja.
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Shania explained: “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. Now I’m at a whole other low. And I just don’t see any point in going on with a music career.”
The singer discovered that Lange was having an affair with her best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, and they later divorced in 2008.
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She described that experience as being similar to how she felt when she lost both of her parents in a car crash in 1987 at just 22 years old.
Shania went on to marry her former friend Marie-Anne’s husband Frédéric Thiébaud in 2011.
She was faced with another battle recently and had to be air evacuated to hospital.
The Still The One songstress became struck down with covid pneumonia during the peak of the pandemic.
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“It was progressively getting worse,” Shania said at the time.
“My vital signs were getting worse… and in the end, I had to be air evacuated.
Eventually, the star was hospitalised and put in isolation, undergoing intense plasma therapy to help build up her antibodies in order to treat her severe viral pneumonia.
She described the time in her life as extremely scary, dangerous, and at one point, left her questioning if she was going to make it.
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Her Covid battle came after she underwent invasive open-throat surgery to repair her weakened vocal chords in 2018.
Shania explained at the time: “In an open throat surgery, I had to be awake, through the surgery in order to phonate.
“I had to be able to sing and speak for the surgeon so he could see the vocal cords coming together and where to place the gore-tex support.”
Thankfully, Shania has now performed multiple times since her surgery and has recently confirmed her third Las Vegas residency.
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