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- Shania Twain is an award-winning singer recognized for her hit songs “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”, “Giddy Up!”, and extra.
- She is married to Frédéric Thiébaud.
- Prior to that, she was married to Mutt Lange for 17 years.
- The songstress is about to look and carry out on the 2023 CMT Music Awards on April 2, 2023.
Prior to the discharge of Shania Twain‘s 2022 Netflix documentary, titled Not Just A Girl, she released a revealing trailer in which she spoke about her ex-husband’s affair. “It was similarly intense to losing my parents. I thought I had lost my voice forever. I thought that was it,” she recalled. Shania’s first husband, Robert John “Mutt” Lange had an affair together with her greatest pal and private assistant, resulting in their divorce in 2010.
Despite feeling like her world was ending, Shania discovered herself strolling down the aisle only some years after her husband declared her wished to separate. So, who stole Shania’s damaged coronary heart and pieced it again collectively? Read on to study each of the nation icon’s marriages forward of her 2023 CMT Music Awards efficiency, under!
Robert John “Mutt” Lange
Shania and Mutt met in 1993 at a rustic competition referred to as Fan Fair after Mutt, a music producer, had gotten her cellphone quantity from her document label, per CMT. They have been married on Dec. 28 of that yr and rapidly grew to become an influence couple personally and professionally, as they collaborated on a lot of the nation celebrity’s music, together with her multi-platinum albums and a few of her largest hits between 1995 and 2005, equivalent to “Any Man of Mine”, “(If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!”, “No One Needs to Know”, and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” amongst many, many others.
“As a producer, he is very much a director as well; very hands-on and very talented. So, he was driving the direction of the sound. He didn’t drive the direction of my voice and never tried to change me,” she defined to The Guardian in 2018 of Mutt’s influence on her music whereas they have been husband and spouse and collaborators. “He was never part of the creative development in that sense. He drove the instrument choices, the sound, the groove. He was a bass player as a musician, and he was very driven by the rhythm.” The dynamic duo welcomed a son, Eja, in 2001.
Shania and Mutt’s relationship gave the impression to be a dream come true, however that dream got here crashing down in 2008 when Mutt approached Shania and instructed her he wished to finish their 14-year union. Shania then turned to her greatest pal and “confidant” Marie-Anne Thiébaud, who she employed to work for her whereas in Switzerland, as famous by the Belfast Telegraph. “I said, ‘Marie-Anne, don’t you think my husband is acting strange?’” she revealed in an interview for The Oprah Winfrey Show. “And she said, ‘No, I don’t see anything strange.’”
Unfortunately, Shania would later discover out that Marie was the rationale her husband wished to go away her, and Marie-Anne’s husband, Frédéric Thiébaud, needed to break the information after he came upon himself. “I said, ‘Guys, now you have to tell her. This is ridiculous. You just owe her that,’” he recalled on Oprah. He broke the information to Shania as soon as Mutt and Marie-Anne refused.
“There were days I didn’t really care if tomorrow came,” the “Endless Love” songstress instructed AARP Magazine in a 2020 interview (through CNN) of her full and utter shock after she realized of the affair. However, Shania additionally referred to as the unlucky occasion “beautifully twisted,” because the heartbreak led her to her future husband: Marie-Anne’s ex-husband, Frédéric.
Frédéric Thiébaud
Shania and Frédéric met by Marie-Anne, and each {couples} grew to become fairly shut in a short time. “Fred and Mutt were good friends, and Marie-Anne and I were good friends,” Twain revealed on Oprah. However, as soon as the information broke, Shania was left devastated. “I called her up and I said you know, ‘Why don’t you come over. I wanna talk to you about something.’ 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,” she recalled on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Unfortunately, Marie-Anne denied hiding something from her or having an affair together with her husband.
The Grammy Award-winner then famous that she and Frédéric ultimately grew to become pals after “trying to make sense of everything [and] holding each other up” by the ache of all of it. Speaking of their newfound love, she added, “We were a support to each other and really found something beautiful in the end and unexpected.”
In her interview with AARP, Shania stated she got here out stronger on the opposite aspect of her messy divorce. “Sometimes I get overwhelmed coping with things, but experience also teaches you how to manage,” she famous. “When you get older, you have so much experience at falling and getting up. You’re not going to stop falling. But you will get better at getting up and brushing yourself off. I believe that. I’ve lived it.”
Shania and Frédéric bought married on New Year’s Day in 2011 in Rincon, Puerto Rico, per People. “They were married at sunset, in front of 40 of their closest family and friends,” Shania’s consultant instructed the publication on the time. “Frédéric Nicolas Thiébaud has been a true gift to me as a compassionate, understanding friend and over time, an amazing love has blossomed from this precious friendship,” Shania wrote on her web site earlier than their nuptials, in line with People. It seems Shania bought her “Forever and for Always” in any case. Most lately, she posted a candy picture of them through Instagram on Jan. 1, 2023. She captioned the picture with only a crimson coronary heart emoji and Frédéric’s official Instagram tag (see above).
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