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A couple clips from upcoming episodes.

Shania - On Making It
While dining at Chez-Nous in Canada, Shania reflects on making it
http://www.oprah.com/own-shaniatwain/Shania-On-Making-It

Sisterhood
Shania and her sister Carrie take a morning jog to the McDonalds restaurant where they used to work.
http://www.oprah.com/own-shaniatwain/Sisterhood

The FULL premiere episode, "From This Moment On," is now online!

Why Not? with Shania Twain, "From This Moment On" - FULL EPISODE

Five-time Grammy award-winner Shania Twain has been out of the public spotlight for six years. Afflicted by the pressures of her career, her perfectionism and her deteriorating self-confidence, Shania stopped performing in 2006 while, behind closed doors, her marriage to music producer "Mutt" Lange was unraveling. Now, post-divorce and several song-less years later, the notoriously private artist embarks on a very public journey to rediscover herself, and hopefully her voice along the way. Watch the special encore full episode and then tune in for new episodes every Sunday!

Watch Why Not? with Shania Twain Sundays, at 10/9c on OWN.

CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH THE SHOW!

http://www.oprah.com/own-shaniatwain/Why-Not-with-Shania-Twain-From-This-Moment-On-FULL-EPISODE?FB=fb_shania_051211_1

Cyn18 wrote:

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I can't watch it :(
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 They block the videos for fans in other countries., which annoys me!!

Shania Twain Tries To Overcome A Career-Paralyzing Emotional Barrier -- All On TV

By Karl J. Paloucek

Don't call her a reality star.

If there's one thing Shania Twain wants people to understand about her new series for OWN, it's that it's a true docu-series, and not a scripted reality anything. After a highly traumatic betrayal involving an affair between then husband (as well as producer and professional partner) Mutt Lange and her best friend, and through the subsequent rather public divorce, Twain suffered a disconnect between herself and the voice that has sold millions of records around the world. It's been years since her public has seen or heard anything new from her, and in an effort to get back her voice, Twain boarded a bus with several treasured friends, her sister Carrie Ann and her cameraman/new husband, Fred, and went on a healing journey to confront the past that seemed to be robbing her of her present and future. The results are documented in Why Not? With Shania Twain, premiering on OWN May 8. We talked with Twain to ask the "why" question that prompts the title, as well as to find out something about her plans and how they're progressing.

What made you decide to go through something so private so publicly, especially something so potentially uncomfortable?

Shania Twain: I'm going through the experience anyway, of this stage of my life. And I'm sharing it with the public -- the experience itself -- then I'm also sharing what I'm doing about what I'm going through. The purpose of that is to inspire others. You know, why keep it to myself? What good is that going to do anyone else?

On another level, it's also just because it is uncomfortable and unusual for me to do, and risky for myself emotionally in a lot of ways. But I have to push myself a little bit. I just feel like I need to go through a phase of forcing myself to do a few things that are uncomfortable and stop shying away from everything until I find a balance.

It's been a few years since the affair and divorce now -- has doing this series made it any easier to talk about? Have you processed it enough at this point?

That is why I went on this journey in the first place -- to accelerate the process of healing. I was getting very impatient with myself, upset with myself that I was still angry after months, and then even a couple of years -- I wasn't getting over it as quickly as I wanted to. And I needed to address that on many levels. ... Divorce is a very devastating thing, and I really underestimated it, to be honest. I think I just expected myself to be over it a lot faster than I was, and I really did underestimate the effects that it could have.

That had to be really hard, both at the time and to work through.

I really feel for people who are in a situation like that. It's pretty devastating, so I thought it was important to share it, and to shed some light on it for anybody who might benefit as well, and also to encourage people to get over it -- in their own time. I'm not saying rush yourself -- I couldn't rush it. But I did feel that it was necessary to be proactive about addressing it, and of course, again, that was all the point of being on tour with it and exposing myself more to it -- like I said, hopefully it accelerated the process a little bit. And it did -- it did do that for me.

But I'll bet you never expected to end up married to your onetime friend's ex-husband.

No, never! Never, never, never. In a way, it's so funny how things have a way of balancing. As shocking and as surprising as the way my marriage ended was, it was balanced out by how surprising and shocking it was that Fred and I would find each other. ... The unlikelihood of it is [that] we were compatible. That was what started it all.

We could have opened with this question, but ... how are you doing?

I'm doing a lot better. Vocally, I'm still inconsistent. I can't rely on it yet. But I have a plan, and I'm very confident that I will step back on the stage again and enjoy it, and not be afraid of it. And that's my goal, really, to be honest.

So you're not quite ready to get back on the road again?

I think it's still a ways away. What I can tell you is that I'm ready to get on that train again, and I've written a lot of music now, in the last while, that I'm so excited about. I'm way less afraid now of the process of putting the music together. ... I met up with David Foster and we worked together on the song. We worked together on the arrangements, and then I got together with Nathan Chapman. So I just feel like that scary "first date" is over and I feel better now. So I'm on that road, for sure, to new music, and I'm actually excited about it.

http://channelguidemag.zap2it.com/articles/why-not-shania-twain-own-0511.php

Here is Episode 2 

Shania Twain takes grief counsellor on tour bus

By Graeme Massie May 16, 2011, 6:31 GMT

Shania Twain brought a grief counsellor on board her tour bus to help her deal with the heartbreaking break-up of her first marriage - and get her singing voice back

But in scenes shown in the latest episode of Twain's reality TV show Why Not? With Shania Twain on OWN, Twain found herself defending and praising ex-husband Robert Mutt Lang, who had an affair with her best friend.

She told therapist Dr Gordon Livingston: 'He is a wonderful person, a kind person, a beautiful person and a great father. I guess I am not really I guess I am not really ready to let the anger part of our relationship to take over. I have not cried enough I admit that.'

Livingston told the country star - now happily remarried - he thought she needed regular therapy and to allow herself to be angry at the people who had hurt her.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1639359.php/Shania-Twain-takes-grief-counsellor-on-tour-bus

The next 2 episodes:

Comfort Food

"What Happens In Vegas" - Promo

Episode 3 airs May 22.

Shania's journey to regain her voice and the confidence to perform takes her to Las Vegas, where she's offered the resident singing gig at Caesars Palace and seek advice from her old friend Glayds Knight.

CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO CLIP!

http://www.oprah.com/own-shaniatwain/What-Happens-In-Vegas-Promo

Music

Shania Twain: ‘My divorce was like a death’

Six years ago, personal questions didn’t impress her much.

On a visit to Toronto to promote her new perfume, ShaniaTwain’s publicist made it clear: no questions about her son, Eja, no queries about her marriage to producer Robert (Mutt) Lange, and no talk about the singer’s impoverished past, including the death of both parents in a 1987 car crash when she was 22.

The Shania Twain who opened the door last week – white wine in hand – was the polar opposite of the tightly wound, notoriously private woman of yore. “Come in. Come in,” she says, chardonnay sloshing, while she introduces her charming new husband, Frédéric Nicolas Thiébaud, who had been lunching with the superstar singer.

Thiébaud makes a quick exit, kissing Twain on the cheek. And the slim brunette sits down to gamely lay bare her heartbreak over her 2010 divorce from Lange, her near breakdown after she found out he’d been sleeping with her best friend (Marie-Anne Thiébaud, deliciously her new hubby’s ex), and her ongoing struggle to reclaim a voice that was effectively silenced by the stress she’s endured the past three years.

All this – and more – she’s willing to dish because it’s already been covered in a new tell-all memoir, From This Moment On, as well as in a new reality show, Why Not? with Shania Twain, a ratings-winner that debuted on Oprah’s OWN network in Canada last Friday night.

“My divorce was like a death. A genuine death of commitment and love,” says the five-time Grammy winner, who hasn’t recorded in almost 10 years. “After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me there’s some way we can save this. We can save this right?” says Twain, laughing shakily.

“I’m a fixer and I wanted desperately things to be fixed, but it wasn’t fixable,” adds the Timmins native, who quit her fledgling singing career in her early 20s to support her family while belting out cabaret tunes at Ontario’s Deerhurst Resort.

“Eventually I came to the realization – much later on – that everything in life doesn’t need to be fixed. Life is what it is, and you don’t have control over it.”

Twain’s journey to heal began about a year after Frédéric broke the news about their partners’ infidelity. When she first found out, she couldn’t eat. She barely functioned. She stopped writing music and she lost her voice to a condition called dysphonia, an involuntary tightening of the vocal chord muscles. She secluded herself in her mansion in Switzerland, and obsessed about how Lange and Marie-Anne had betrayed her.

“I went through bouts of anger, and resentment, and then confusion trying to make sense of it all,” she says. “You obsess after a while when you don’t get clarification, or explanations. Then your imagination starts to run wild.

“Psychologically every human being needs a certain amount of explanation. We’re learners. So we learn, then we change, we evolve, and we mature. But when we get stuck, and the pages are all blank, there’s no peace.”

Finally fed up with moping – not to mention the rot in her gut – Twain turned to self-helpbooks on how to cope with grief, reached out to family and friends (including Thiébaud), and sought therapy (for the first time) to get her life back.

“I hate to cry, and I had spent my whole life wearing my toughness like a shield,” says the 45-year-old, dressed in cropped peach pants and a matching T-shirt, accessorized with amethyst earrings and four-inch purple Yves Saint Laurent heels. “But I finally realized that was so unhealthy. Hence, this journey I’m on.”

The reality series on OWN is a cross-country road trip that Twain takes with a few loyal members of her band, as well as her younger sister, Carrie Ann. It starts in Timmins, where she re-visits the tiny family home, a place where her mother was domestically abused and Twain had to fight off her stepfather’s unwanted sexual advances.

One might expect Twain to speak disparagingly of the parent who beat her mom, and whispered insults in her ear when she tried to sleep. But she doesn’t, insisting he was “intrinsically a kind, decent man.

“I see my dad as someone who had his own struggles, and was a victim of his own demons. Everyone in our scenario was a victim in their own way. I have to see the good and the bad because he was both those things.”

And she’s equally (somewhat shockingly) magnanimous to Lange, to whom she was married for 14 years. “I really do believe he has been destroyed by this, as much as me. Just in different ways. I think it’s been extremely difficult for him, and I feel compassion for that. I wish this had not happened to him. He is a very sweet person whose done some really bad things. But I do believe he’s the kind of person who will come to terms with it on his own.”

In the back of my mind, I’m thinking she’s a much better person than me. But then she addresses the issue of the other woman. “I never want to see her again,” says Twain, who confided all her marriage angst to Marie-Anne. “What does it take for someone to act like that – and that bad?” she asks, with a shake of her head.

“My ex-husband was very uncomfortable with it all. It tortured him and his conscience was suffering. But some people have deeper issues, and deeper problems. And those are the people who are capable of a whole other level of maliciousness. Something that is calculated.”

Initially, Twain was terrified to do the Why Not TV series. But she agreed to document her journey because it puts the pressure on her to start writing new songs, and hopefully, get that voice back.

“I'm ready to throw myself back into the water. It's the only way to do it,” says Twain, twirling her five-carat, cushion-cut diamond. “And I’m now married to the most beautiful man. What I thought could never be fixed, finally has.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/shania-twain-my-divorce-was-like-a-death/article2028590/

Shania Twain finds success as reality star

Boston Herald
By Amy Amatangelo
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Even though she’s a country music superstar, Shania Twain knows she’s not that different from anyone else.

“Pain and suffering do not discriminate,” Twain told the Herald in a recent telephone interview. “All the things I’ve gone through in my life, I think everyone has gone through to one degree or another.”

The 45-year-old opens up about her struggles in “Why Not? With Shania Twain” (tonight at 10 on OWN). She talks about the violence that existed in her home as she was growing up, her parents’ sudden deaths when she was 21, the end of her 14-year marriage to music producer Robert “Mutt” Lange and her current fear of performing.

“I know for myself that I’m not alone,” she said. “This phobia thing that I have is a result and a manifestation of thinking that I had to keep everything to myself and I’ve got to be strong and I’ve got to hide everything because it’s embarrassing and humiliating. I know there are a lot of people who feel the same way out there, to their extreme detriment. They’re not reaching out for all the same reasons I didn’t. I hope to say: ‘In finding my voice, maybe I can be your voice.’ ”

The Ontario native received a lot of unwanted press attention when Lange’s affair with Twain’s friend Marie-Anne Thiebaud became public. “The most difficult thing to talk about would have been the betrayal and the divorce and stuff,” she said. “But to be honest, since that had already been exploited and I had already gone through the humiliation of that publicly without even being involved at all, it was almost like that was the part that I looked forward to (working through).”

Twain's new husband, Frederic Thiebaud (the ex-husband of Marie-Anne), and sister Carrie Ann join her on the series. Earlier this month, she also released her autobiography, “From This Moment On.”

“I’ve never been one to care to set the record straight,” she said. “The purpose of documenting my life on pages was it was a documentation of truth for my son. An account of my life where, should I die prematurely in his life, he would have that and not be left with just confusion because there were so many different variations of my story.”

Twain’s series debuted to big ratings for Oprah Winfrey’s fledging cable network. “I’m really happy it’s going to be a productive exercise of reaching people,” she said. “The more people that I reach, the more I achieve what I set out to do.”

Would she consider filming more seasons? “I’ve actually had a fantastic experience,” she said. “But have I enjoyed the experience of television or enjoyed the experience of evolving? So far I’m happy with the response, but I have to sit down and decide what I’m going to do next."

Boston Herald

Shania Twain Checks Vocal Chords, Visits Las Vegas on ‘Why Not? With Shania Twain’

By: Amy Sciarretto

Shania Twain is fearless … even though she probably doesn’t feel like it. On this week’s episode of ‘Why Not? With Shania Twain,’ Twain engaged in another public therapy session, obviously unconcerned by the fact that she might seem like a chronic confessor and overindulgent whiner.

She traveled to Las Vegas, where Caesar’s Palace execs are courting her to be their next headliner. We saw Twain tired, cranky, crying, warts ‘n’ all, as she considered the offer. However, if you’ve been watching this docu-drama or even following Twain’s personal life, you’re already aware that she has “lost” her singing voice and ability to perform and is still recovering from the deception she endured at the hands of her best friend and ex-husband.

Early on, Twain said, “I couldn’t do a concert tomorrow. I’m not ready,” which means the series is going to end with a concert; how could it not? The whole theme of the show and the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) on which it appears is about women overcoming adversity.

Twain also met with singer Gladys Knight, who has been performing in Vegas for 45 years, to get a sense of what this gig would entail. Twain also sang her new song, ‘Today Is Your Day,’ early on in the episode.

She traveled to Nashville for a check-up to make sure there is nothing physical happening to her famous vocal chords, preventing her from singing. She does suffer from dysphonia, which is a condition affecting her physical voice, but it’s also psychosomatic.

Interestingly, Twain met with a woman named Anita who cheated with a friend’s husband in order to gain some perspective, since Twain can’t go to the source and address her own situation with her betrayers. It’s a vicarious therapy session in a show full of therapy sessions.

Before the episode ended, Twain performed on the roof of a Vegas building, and it was one step closer to unlocking the puzzle and locating her voice. “I want to sing again,” Twain said. We hope she gets to that place.

http://tasteofcountry.com/shania-twain-why-not-vegas-today-is-your-day/

Preview of the next episode (May 29).

"Fear is Just a Four-letter Word" - Promo

Shania pushes through her fears on a challenging rock climb and seeks alternative methods to regaining her voice at Golden Wilow Retreat in Taos, New Mexico.

PurplePeopleEater wrote:

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He ran off in '04??????

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 He had been having the affair for many years.

Shania Twain Still Looking For Her Voice on ‘Why Not? With Shania Twain’

By: Amy Sciarretto
May 30, 2011

On the latest episode of ‘Why Not? With Shania Twain,’ dubbed ‘Fear Is Just a Four-Letter Word,’ Shania Twain recognizes that she can’t live without singing, which is a point she has made abundantly clear on every episode of the docu-drama.

We’re several episodes deep now, and in this one, Twain faces a new fear, which is rock climbing — something she is doing for the first time ever. “I need to engage myself in the physical experience and stop going in circles in my mind,” Twain says.

Since the show is a gab fest, and Twain expresses her feelings and emotions in every episode, she counterbalances the chatting with some adventure and strenuous physical activity this week. She talks about not having a safety net on stage like she did when climbing the rocks and it’s a sensible comparison.

Twain again offers an embryonic version of her new song, ‘Today Is Your Day,’ as she works on relaxing and retraining her vocal muscles. She also attends a counseling session to sort through her post-marital disintegration emotions.

By now, the show has a visible formula that includes a cathartic event; Twain working on music and locating her voice; and addressing the betrayal. In this week’s therapy session, the singer does say something incredibly poignant. Since she attained such a measure of enviable career success, she felt like she didn’t have the right to be wounded by other things in life, which is an unfair thing to impose on herself. It was a breakthrough moment. She has a Reiki therapy session and writes unsent letters to her ex-husband and former best friend.

At this point in the series, Twain appears incredibly comfortable with full disclosure. Her diehard fans will appreciate this level of openness, but a casual watcher might tire of all this open-door therapy. The compelling element that makes the next episode worth watching each week is the prospect of Twain singing in full again or confronting her ex-best friend.

http://tasteofcountry.com/shania-twain-why-not-may-29-recap/

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PurplePeopleEater wrote:

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 He had been having the affair for many years.

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 Correct. The fling went on a while before they got caught.

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 Right. He was having the best of both worlds.

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