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Shania Twain on Finding 'Peace' (and Love Again) After Ex's Affair: 'The Resentment Is Gone'

The country queen will release her new album, Queen of Me, on Feb. 3

By Jeff Nelson | PEOPLE | December 20, 2022 

Shania Twain is opening up about how she reconciled her painful past.

In this week's PEOPLE cover story, the country-pop icon looks back on her devastating divorce from producer husband Robert "Mutt" Lange.

The pair's 14-year marriage ended in 2008, when Twain learned of Lange's affair with her close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud.

"It was a very low period in my life," Twain, 57, recalls.

Following the betrayal, she and Marie-Anne's husband, former Nestlé exec Frédéric Thiébaud, commiserated over their shared heartbreak and soon after fell in love.

"That is a really strong bond that builds over time, that is rare, that you don't have in every relationship if you don't have those deep scars in common," Twain says of Thiébaud. "We were a big part of each other's healing."

After finalizing her divorce in 2010, Twain and Thiébaud, 52, married on New Year's Day 2011 — a move she wasn't sure she'd ever make.

"When I got divorced I said, 'I'm never getting married again.' I was definitely one of those people that could have written a million songs about, 'I'm never going to fall in love again,'" Twain says. "But Fred was such an undeniable love."

The couple are empty-nesters now (her and Lange's son Eja, also a musician, and Thiébaud's daughter Johanna are both 21), and they're now enjoying "a sort of second honeymoon phase," Twain says. "We're bonded now in a different way without the kids."

Today, Twain is also "in a good place" with her ex.

"I found peace a long time ago, and maybe peace is forgiveness, you know?" Twain says of moving on from Lange. "I'm able to have more appreciation for him again, not for what happened in our marriage but for all that he contributed to such a great part of my career and my life. We have a beautiful child from it. The resentment is gone."

Twain and Lange worked together on three of her diamond-certified albums (The Woman in Me, Come on Over and Up!), and she even still uses his recording studio, though their creative partnership is long over.

"That's kind of our crossroads area, which is, I think, really appropriate. It feels really good to say that. We share engineers, and so we have this music creative zone that we all go to on our own time," Twain says.

Twain is preparing to release her next album, Queen of Me — her first in five years and her second she's created without Lange after their split — on Feb. 3.

"I was coming out of a dark place... now I'm on the other side of that," she says.

For more on Shania Twain, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Thursday.

https://people.com/country/shania-twain-on-finding-love-again-peace-after-exs-betrayal/

Shania Twain on Posing Topless and 'Embracing' Menopause: I'm 'So Unashamed of My New Body'

The country queen posed topless for her "Waking Up Dreaming" single art

By Jeff Nelson | PEOPLE | December 21, 2022 

Shania Twain is embracing body positivity.

In September, the country-pop icon released her latest single "Waking Up Dreaming," which will appear on her upcoming sixth studio album, Queen of Me (out Feb. 3). And for the single art, she decided to pose topless.

"This is me expressing my truth. I'm comfortable in my own skin, and this is the way I am sharing that confidence," Twain, 57, tells PEOPLE. "I think the best fashion is confidence, and whatever you wear — if you're wearing it with that, it's fashionable. I am a woman in my late 50s, and I don't need to hide behind the clothes. I can't even tell you how good it felt to do nude shooting. I was just so unashamed of my new body, you know, as a woman that is well into my menopause. I'm not even emotional about it; I just feel okay about it. It's really liberating."

This isn't the first time Twain has broken boundaries in country music with her art. For her debut 1993 music video "What Made You Say That," she bared her midriff and went bra-less.

"From the very beginning — the very first video — I was ditching the bra," says Twain, who has still struggled with body image like most. "But, I was a lot firmer then, so as I grew older, I started feeling a different pressure of, 'Well, your breasts are not as plump as they used to be. Your skin is not as tight as it used to be. Maybe you should start covering it up a little bit more.'"

When those thoughts started to creep in, Twain decided to be bold.

"I hit this wall and was like, 'Whoa, my confidence is regressing. My courage is dulling. Why am I allowing this? Frig that. I am not regressing. I am embracing my body as it changes, as I should have from my childhood to my teens, as I should be from my taut, 20s and 30-year-old self, to my menopausal body. I'm not going to be shy about it. I want to be courageous about it, and I want to share that courage in the artwork that I am directing."

Twain struggled with her image as a child and, in a recent interview with The Sunday Times, said she would try and flatten her breasts to avoid abuse at the hands of her stepdad Jerry.

"I'm somebody that [was] never wearing a bathing suit at the beach as a teenager because I was way too self-conscious. My father made me feel self-conscious. It was almost dirty to wear shorts or not be entirely covered up. As my body was maturing and I was becoming a teenager, all of a sudden I was getting real curves. I mean, I'm a curvy person. I have boobs, and they bounce when I walk. So when that started happening, I started strapping myself down: I was wearing two bras; I was wearing tight, tight spandex things under my sweatshirts, that were way oversized; I was dressing like a boy. I didn't feel good about becoming a woman. I was embarrassed by it. I was hiding my curves. I was rejecting it," she says.

Adds Twain: "I was rejecting what I was growing into, which was very natural. How shameful is that? And not shameful of me, but shameful of that pressure. It was terrible."

Today, Twain says, "I'm feeling more comfortable in my own skin than I've ever felt before."

And she hopes to inspire generations of women to embrace body confidence.

"I want other women that are aging, or any women … even if you're 12 and you're developing, you shouldn't feel like you need to hide behind your fear or your self-conscious shield," Twain says. "But you have to do it within your own sense of what is right and good and safe for you."

For more on Shania Twain, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Thursday.

https://people.com/country/shania-twain-on-posing-topless-and-embracing-menopause/

It would be a dream but I don't think they will ever write together again.
Part of the magic created was the chemistry between the two of them, and even though they're on good terms now I don't think that chemistry could be recreated.
Plus, she said to PEOPLE she doesn't need him anymore 'cause she has nothing to prove anymore.