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Shania Twain on 'Today': 'My friend was now a backstabber, my husband was now my backstabber's new love interest'
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Shania Twain is promoting her new book, "From This Moment On," in which she writes about her life growing up in poverty, in a home in which her stepdad abused her mother and the break-up of her marriage when her then-husband allegedly had an affair with her then-best-friend.She tells Meredith Vieira on "Today" that her childhood made her "feel very insecure, it as a very unstable environment." "I think it just keeps you on your toes and worried ... that's why I had to write a book. I felt I needed to unravel this life of so many extremes," says Twain.
"I am genuinely a very private person and I've probably been just too closed and up to now probably more closed than what was good for me. I also feel that a lot of that was just a bit of fear and anxiety and worried about what people would think all the time," she continues. "Now I'm at a point where I feel sharing and giving testimony to a lot of things I've experienced in life will do more good for others than it would do keeping it to myself. It also forces me a bit out of my comfort zone."
Meredith reads a passage from the book about the affair between her husband and friend. Twain writes, "My friend was now a backstabber, my husband was now my backstabber's new love interest. They were open about their intolerance of my grief and impatient for me to get over it already, but change wasn't instant or final. Like any death it would take time."
Shania says of that passage and that part of her life, "That was embarrassing for me. I've been thrown into the public eye with something I'm very uncomfortable with. But I think it's time to face a lot of things that are uncomfortable head on and get them over with and that just makes it easier to move on on many many levels."
"I started writing and obsessing about the break-up of my marriage. I just couldn't get past it. When grief carries on too long, into the second year, for example, you have to start looking a little bit at getting help," she says.
"From This Moment On" is in bookstores and available for download now. You can read an excerpt at the 'Today' website.
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Always been a huge fan and have missed her tremendously. So sorry to hear about all her troubles. However, having listened to her on Oprah yesterday about the fact that her son cannot be exposed to his father's new love interest, her former best friend, which is her new husband's former wife (very confusing) I feel she has not completely healed and still harbors quite a bit of anger and hurt. Whatever transpired, it should always be whatever is best for the child, and I just don't see how harboring such ill will after all this time helps her son in the long run. I wish her nothing but peace and happiness, but I'm afraid she still has work to do in that area. Maybe then her fabulous voice can return.
I love Shania and wish her well in her life with her new husband. I agree that she is still harboring very bitter feelings towards her ex and keeping her son away from him & his new love will be very destructive to him mentally & emotionally in the long-run. I am a true believer that things like this happen for a reason. Mutt was not the man for her. I'm glad she has a new man but I just hope that she doesn't always dwell on the past with him. It's not good for a relationship. She needs to get herself a good therapist and move on.
I don't agree with previous comments. I don't see a woman who is just bitter and wants to keep her back-stabbing ex-friend away from her son---I see a person who was traumatized and finds it very hard to trust her soon in a situation that was brutal and hurtful for herself. She is protecting him. She did not say she was keeping him from his FATHER, but rather the evil witch who broke up her marriage. Further, the witch did not break up her marriage alone. She had help from the warlock she was married. Go on with your bad self, Shania, and that means good, honey. You are a survivor.
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