When opening up about her ex-husband's affair with her friend in an interview, the 'You're Still the One' singer admits that she didn't handle it very and the cheating scandal made her so fragile.
- Mar 5, 2023
AceShowbiz - Shania Twain might still feel hurt by her ex-husband's infidelity. In an interview, the "You're Still the One" singer admitted that she hasn't spoken to Robert "Mutt" Lange following his affair with her close friend Marie-Anne Thiebaud.
The 57-year-old opened up about her heartbreak when appearing on the "Armchair Expert" podcast. "I don't think that a lot of things that happened to me since my divorce should have been so hard on me," she said. "I should have been less naive about life's ups and downs. Maybe I'm too much, like, 'That's all behind me.' "
Shania and Robert ended their marriage in 2008 after 14 years due to the cheating scandal. They finalized their divorce in 2010. In the following year, she married Marrie-Anne's husband, former Nestle exec Frederic Thiebaud.
In the interview, Shania told Dax Shepard that she and Frederic had no romantic connection when they were still married to their respective partners. "I did not get close to Fred at all, we didn't have each other's numbers," she claimed.
"He was not really part of our daily lives because he was working these crazy hours," she continued. "A lot of travel [for his] very high-profile company, just suit and tie and so he would be around, like, weekend dinners and stuff like that - we would all eat together and that was it."
"It would be mostly him and Mutt chatting, so I didn't really know Fred very well," the Grammy winner went on explaining. "I guess it was a beautiful surprise to then see how gracefully and graciously he was dealing with navigating the same pain."
According to Shania, Frederic handled the news of the affair much better than she did back then. "He was so thoughtful about it all… It was not cool with him, but he was smarter about it. I was uncontrollably fragile over it, which I had never felt before ever because I thought for once I was stable. I really believe that I'm safe, so that really devastated me I think more than any other instability I've ever felt," she recalled.
