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Shania Twain Opens Up About Battle with Lyme Disease: ‘I Was Mourning the Expression of My Voice’

"I felt I had no other choice but to accept it — and that I would never sing again," Twain says, in PEOPLE’s exclusive first look at this week’s episode of Sunday Today with Willie Geist

By Maria Pasquini | PEOPLE | March 06, 2020

Shania Twain was once afraid that her battle with Lyme disease had taken away her voice.

In PEOPLE’s exclusive first look at the country superstar’s upcoming Sunday Today with Willie Geist interview, Twain, 54, opens up about what was going through her head when she underwent multiple open-throat surgeries amid her recovery from the tick-borne illness, which she contracted in 2003.

“I remember thinking and people saying, ‘Where’s Shania Twain? Where did she go?’ ” Geist remarks, in reference to the hiatus she took in 2015 to deal with her vocal cord problems.

“It was devastating,” says Twain. “I was very, very sad about it to the point where I just — I felt I had no other choice but to accept it — and that I would never sing again.”

Twain went on to share that during this difficult time in her life she “was mourning for sure.”

“I was mourning the expression of my voice,” she says.

Luckily for Twain — and country music fans — she was able to recover and return to the spotlight in 2017.

“Do you remember hearing your voice the first time you sang after the surgery and you felt like, ‘I’m back, I can do this again?’ ” asks Geist.

“It was little by little because the surgery is invasive,” Twain replies, noting that while her voice will never be the same as it was before, she’s learned to embrace the changes. “It’s given me more room to play, to be honest,” she adds, noting that she’s also a fan of the new gravely tone to her voice. “I think it’s kind of sexy.”

“I’m never gonna have my own voice again — I’m okay with that. I’ve found a new voice and I like it.”

Twain recently opened up to PEOPLE about how thrilled she is to be back in the studio and onstage.

“It would have killed me not to be able to ever sing again,” she said. “I wasn’t going to let my life be over if I wasn’t going to be able to sing again, but I would have been very sad and I would have mourned that forever. But it is a great love of mine and a passion — that’s what got me back on stage again, because I could. Now I have more appreciation for it than ever.”

Catch the full interview this Sunday on Sunday Today with Willie Geist, airing at 8 a.m. ET on NBC. The full unedited version of the interview is also available on the Sunday Sitdown podcast.

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Shania Twain opens up about her Lyme disease: I was 'mourning' my voice

The country star spoke with Willie Geist for Sunday TODAY about her fear over losing her voice and how she recovered to perform again.

By Scott Stump | TODAY | March 6, 2020

Shania Twain thought her days as a singer were over when her vocal cords were affected by a diagnosis of Lyme disease.

In an interview airing this weekend on Sunday TODAY, the 54-year-old country star spoke with Willie Geist about the emotional time when she was diagnosed with a vocal cord disorder in 2011 and then learned she had Lyme disease.

"It was devastating,'' she said. "I was very, very sad about it, to the point where ... I felt I had no other choice but to just accept it."

She feared her singing vocals might really be gone after she underwent a pair of throat surgeries when she began losing her voice.

"I was mourning,'' she said. "I was mourning the expression of my voice."

Twain eventually made it back with the support of her husband, Swiss businessman Frederic Thiebaud, whom she married in 2011 and leaned on during her difficult time away from music.

She eventually started to recover her voice, but it wasn't quite the same as before.

"The surgery's quite ... invasive,'' she said. "It's given me more room to play, to be honest. I have gravel.

"I think it's kind of sexy. I mean, it's there. I'm never gonna have my old voice again. I'm OK with that. I've found a new voice. And I like it."

Twain is now showing off her new voice at a Las Vegas residency called "Let's Go!"

"It's a dream show," she said. "I feel very privileged. I see it as a reward."

Twain also spoke with Willie about her overall journey of growing up poor in Canada, performing at local bars as an 8-year-old, and tragically losing both of her parents in a car accident when she was 22 and living in Nashville.

"I do every day look back at where I came from and where I am, and can't believe it,'' she said. "And then I look at all the hurdles. And then that's a whole other level of belief or disbelief that I've made it through them and over them. Everything that I've experienced has brought me to where I am, and it's a good place."

https://www.today.com/health/shania-twain-opens-about-her-lyme-disease-i-was-mourning-t175463

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Tomorrow morning on #SundayTODAY, @ShaniaTwain, on her incredible rise from a childhood of poverty to becoming one of the bestselling artists in the history of music. See you in the AM on @NBC! ☀️

2:15 PM ET - 7 Mar 20

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Shania Twain: From poverty to stardom, and finding her ‘new voice’

In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Shania Twain talks to Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist about her rise to fame, and facing personal tragedy and professional exhaustion along the way. She also opens up about the “devastating” loss of her voice after contracting Lyme disease. Today, the “You’re Still the One” singer is flexing a new voice during her Las Vegas residency.

https://www.today.com/video/shania-twain-from-poverty-to-stardom-and-finding-her-new-voice-80264773660

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