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Shania Twain on 'Ellen': 'I will sing again. Absolutely.'

By Andrea Reiher

May 12, 2011 11:12 AM ET

Country star Shania Twain stops by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Thursday (May 12) to talk about her new memoir, "From This Moment On," which details (among other things) her childhood abuse and her recovery from her then-husband's affair with her best friend.

Shania: "I hope that other people relate to this. Even in finding my own voice because it's blocked my voice. This lack of self-expression. I hope that through finding my own voice that it speaks for others as well."

Ellen: "You are helping others ... I know how hard this is. I personally feel an obligation. This fame we have a platform if we can help other people ..."

Shania: "Exactly."

Ellen: "We can be an example and be a story for somebody out there to have the strength and say they did it. I can do it. So you are doing that."

Shania: "This platform is great. It's fantastic but it's so much more meaningful to use it for a deeper meaning, a deeper personal meaning."

Ellen: "I know you said, it's affected your voice and you haven't been able to sing since all this happened. So, it's taking a physical as well as an emotional toll on you. Do you think you will sing again?"

Shania: "Yes, I will sing again. Absolutely."

Ellen: "We want see you sing again. We want to hear that. You have such a beautiful voice. The more you keep talking about it the more your voice is going to open up and I can't wait to hear you sing again. I can't wait."

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Country music superstar Shania Twain stopped by to tell Ellen about her shocking new autobiography, and opened up on some of the most painful moments from her past.

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Shania Twain Talks Infidelity with Ellen DeGeneres

May 13, 2011

ShaniaTwainhas made the media rounds lately and her recent stop at the "Ellen DeGenerous show" revealed some new information involving her ex-husbands cheating ways.

Fans already know that the superstar was faced with infidelity from her husband Mutt Lange. And, they also knew that he cheated on his wife with her very good friend, but as Shania Twain reveals to Ellen, there were other parts of the affair that were much more hurtful. She stated that during the Easter holiday the two families came together to share in the special day, but what she didn't know, was that there was more to the relationship then she had expected.

Further, when Fred, who was Marie-Anne's husband at the time, asked to speak with Shania personally and broke the news about the affair, the singer admitted she initially thought it was a farce before finally uncovering the devastating truth.

Though Shania Twain admitted that she doesn't get into great detail about the affair she does state that her story reveals what she went through.

Probably the most devastating blow was when Shania explained to Ellen that she gave Marie-Anne an opportunity to reveal the secret before she acknowledged knowing about the affair. But, despite her probing questions, her secretary and dear friend said there was nothing she was hiding.

Eventually her world began to spiral and she's been on a discovering journey ever since. But, in an unexpected way, something good came out of all the bad. She found love again, ironically through Marie-Anne's husband Fred. Twain admits that the two had only known each other on a professional level before the affair but after spending time with Fred she discovered a life partner in him.

Now the country singer is ready to be back in the spotlight after a lot of time away. She admits that there are still dark days but that she is moving on with life and looking at things in a whole new light.

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OFFSTAGE: Shania Twain Smiles Through the Pain

May 13, 2011; Written by Alison Bonaguro

(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)

For someone who has been through so much unhappiness, Shania Twain sure seems happy. And she kind of won't stop smiling and laughing. That may be because beneath the abuse and poverty and betrayals and humiliation and lies and pain, Twain truly is over it all. Or because she now has a New York Times bestseller, From This Moment On. Or because she was hanging with Ellen DeGeneres on her show Thursday (May 12). Even DeGeneres sees it. "You are a kind, happy woman today," she tells Twain. And when Twain talks about the book, she says, "I'm grateful for my life. This is the personal side of my life. I'm sharing it with you for very genuine, sincere reasons." She even forgives her father for his abusive ways, saying bad things happen to good people. But at the very end of the half-hour segment, she tells DeGeneres, the audience and the world what they all wanted to hear: "Yes, I will sing again. Absolutely!

http://www.cmt.com/news/cmt-offstage/1663834/offstage-shania-twain-smiles-through-the-pain.jhtml

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Shania Twain's Love Rival Refused To Leave Husband Alone

The woman who wrecked ShaniaTwain's marriage to record producer Mutt Lange refused to give up her affair with him, telling the singer she couldn't control her lover's feelings.

Twain has cut off all ties to her former friend and assistant Marie-Anne Thiebaud since learning of the romance between her and her now ex-husband - and has even refused to allow Lange to let their son spend time with his girlfriend.

But before cutting Thiebaud off completely, Twain had one final frosty showdown with her former friend, after sending her an email begging her to leave Lange alone.

The You're The One singer tells Access Hollywood, "She said, 'I can't control your husband's feelings for me. It's not my fault that he loves me.'

"Then I started to get angry because I was thinking, 'OK, now that's... It took a lot of nerve to say that.'"

In a romantic twist, Twain became close with Thiebaud's estranged husband Fred as she dealt with the heartbreak of her broken marriage. The couple wed on New Years Day (01Jan11).

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/shania-twains-love-rival-refused-to-leave-husband-alone_1219007

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Shania Twain appears on The Ellen DeGeneres show on May 12, 2011 and reads from her biography From This Moment On. - Provided courtesy of Warner Bros.

Shania Twain 'ready to die' after betrayal

Posted by Corinne Heller

Shania Twain says in her new memoir that she was "ready to die" after finding out her first husband was cheating on her, although he has not confirmed this, and told Ellen DeGeneres that she now finds it easy to talk about the issue.

The 45-year-old country and pop star has been speaking to the press about the matter to promote her new memoir, "From This Moment On." Her new OWN reality series, "Why Not?," which also showcases her struggle and her journey to regain her voice after the scandal, debuted on May 8. The show gave Oprah Winfrey's new cable network its highest premiere ratings.

Twain has not released a new album in almost a decade and has not performed for an audience in almost five years. In 2008, Twain and first husband Robert "Mutt" Lange, a record producer and the father of her son Eja, separated after 14 years of marriage.

The singer would later learn that he was involved with her assistant and close friend, Marie-Anne Thiebaud. She and Lange have not confirmed they were involved at the time. After Twain and Lange divorced, the singer married the bearer of the bad news - Thiebaud's husband, Frederic.

"Fred just called me up," Twain told DeGeneres on her syndicated talk show in a recent episode. "He just said, 'I have proof if you want it and I've been following it now for a few weeks and I've got hotel bills and all kinds of details.'"

"For the first week after finding out about the affair, I was ready to die - to go to bed forever and never wake up," Twain read from her book on an iPad on DeGeneres' program. "Or to hurt someone. I was ready to do something desperate, but in reality, there was nothing to do but to suffer through it. Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going."

"And that's what kept me going," she told the talk show host. It's easy for me to talk about it in the sense that I'm not angry when I talk about it anymore. "It's obvious that life just has to play out the way it's meant to and how can I complain with the way it's ended up?" On the reality show "Why Not? with Shania Twain," the singer says she has lost her ability to sing. She visits her childhood home in Canada, where she grew up in poverty. She also enlists the help of vocal doctors and coaches, a grief counselor and fellow music artists such as Lionel Richie and Gladys Knight in a bid to "reclaim her voice."

Twain had told Winfrey that after her marriage ended, a doctor told her that had dysphonia, a condition in which the muscles squeeze the voice box, making it difficult to swallow or sing. Twain attributes the problem to her fears.

"Stage fright, domestic violence in the home as a child, my parents dying, not knowing what's next - just all of these different stages of fear in my life," she told Winfrey. "I've just trapped my own voice, and now I've got to unwind all that."

Twain has dealt with tragedy most of her adult life. The singer, who was named Eilleen when she was born, grew up with two sisters and two half brothers and in 1987, her mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident. At age 22, Twain became her younger siblings' guardian.

The singer went on to concentrate on her music career and achieved mainstream success with hits such as "That Don't Impress Me Much" and "Still The One," last released a studio album in 2002. The record, "Up!" has sold more than 11 million copies in the United States.

In addition to two-day passes to the 2011 CMA Music Festival, Twain also surprised Winfrey's studio audience of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" with accommodations at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, a CMA statement said, adding that Twain also said she will host a private brunch for all of the audience members when they visit the city.

Twain last appeared at CMA Music Festival in 1996, when it was still known as Fan Fair. She will sign copies of her autobiography at this year's event but is not scheduled to perform, a spokesperson told OnTheRedCarpet.com.

http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Shania-Twain-ready-to-die-after-betrayal-Video/8129782

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Shania Twain Reveals New Details of Ex's Alleged Affair

Posted May 13th 2011 12:50PM by Gayle Thompson

Shania Twain continues to make the TV rounds, talking about her new autobiography, 'From This Moment On,' which chronicles the highs and lows of both her career and personal life -- including her much publicized divorce from first husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange after his alleged affair. The betrayal, she explains, was that much more bitter because the object of his affection was her close friend and secretary, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, who was also married at the time. The news of the alleged infidelity came from none other than Marie-Anne's own then-husband, Frédéric Thiébaud.

"It was Easter time, and we were two families spending the holidays together, is what I thought," she reveals in an intimate chat on the 'Ellen DeGeneres Show.' "Fred and I did not have a one-on-one relationship at all. It was quite a formal relationship, really. He didn't have my personal phone number, for example, but he found out how to reach me. He said, 'I need to talk to you about Mutt and Marie-Anne. Can I come and see you?' He just basically explained that, 'I'd been waiting for a few weeks to tell you, I'd been hoping that they would tell you themselves, and I think you need to know,' and then he told me."

The Canadian superstar acknowledges she didn't take the news very well. "Of course, I didn't believe him and I thought for sure he was making it up," she admits. "I was obviously just in denial on my part. He just said, 'I have proof if you want it. I've been following it now for a few weeks, and I've got hotel bills and all kinds of details.' I don't go into the details in the book, so if that's what you're looking for, you probably don't want to read it. I don't go into the details about the affair because it's not necessary. I talk more about how it affected me and what I learned from it."

Shania still didn't want to believe that her closest confidant and the father of her son, 10-year-old Eja, would commit such an act of betrayal together. "I called [Marie-Anne] up and said, 'Why don't you come over? I want to talk to you about something,'" recalls the singer. "I asked her if there was anything she needed to tell me. I wanted to give her the opportunity to tell me herself without me accusing her. Because at this point, I wasn't sure that Fred might have been exaggerating or something. She said, 'No, I really don't know what to tell you. I don't understand why you think I would ever hide anything from you.'"

The multi-platinum-selling singer writes about those devastating moments in her book:

"For the first week after finding out about the affair, I was ready to die. To go to bed forever and never wake up. Or to hurt someone. I was ready to do something desperate. But in reality, there was nothing to do but to suffer through it. Fortunately when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going."

Ironically, Shania ultimately found solace in the one person who could fully understand the depth of her suffering: Marie-Anne's former husband. "It unraveled very slowly from there. It took a long time to deal with, and it's a very slow grieving process on my end, and on Fred's end obviously," explains the country icon. "We slowly became very, very good friends. We had many months of just trying to make sense of everything, holding each other up. It was a very difficult time emotionally for both of us. I would say he was probably stronger than I was. He was a tremendous support -- we were a support to each other -- and really found something beautiful in the end and unexpected."

The unexpected ending, of course, was her new love with Fred, who became her husband earlier this year. "This is why it's easy for me to talk about in the sense that I'm not angry when I talk about it anymore," she notes. "I'm not even really confused because it's obvious life just has to play out the way it's meant to, and how can I complain with the way it ended up? Of course it was painful. It's more difficult, to be honest, to talk about other elements of my life with the public, because the divorce and the betrayal was already splattered all over the tabloids without me having anything to do with it, and I've already gone through that humiliation and embarrassment. For me, I've already gone through that part, in the public, and now it's easier to talk about than a lot of other things."

While she is thrilled with how the new chapter of her life is unfolding, she adds she chooses to stay clear of anything that has to do with Mutt's relationship with Marie-Anne. Acknowledging she has no idea if the former flames are still together, she says, "It doesn't matter anymore. It's no longer my business."

The new memoir was one of the biggest tools in helping Shania recover from the betrayal and learn to trust again. "Part of writing the whole book and starting from the beginning of my life was to put that back part of my life into more perspective," the resilient 45-year-old notes. "It doesn't define who I am and it doesn't define my whole life. My whole life is a much bigger picture, and writing the book from the beginning gave perspective to that one very difficult time. Really, it's just a part of my life."

Shania is ready to return to the public eye again. She recently debuted a new series on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network, 'Why Not?,' which scored the highest-rated premiere of any show on the new network. She is also making a long-awaited return to Nashville's CMA Music Festival, where she will also be on hand to greet fans and sign autographs.

http://www.theboot.com/2011/05/13/shania-twain-ellen-degeneres-show/

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Shania Twain Opens Up About Heartbreak, Betrayal, and Finding Strength

[Aired: May 12. 2011] Shania Twain discusses her journey through heartbreak, betrayal, and the unexpected turn that led to finding strength and love. In this 2011 interview, she shares her experiences from the lowest lows to her inspiring comeback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxCgedPA7aw