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Shania Twain Opens Up About Painful Divorce & Finding Love Again
Shania Twain 
spoke recently with Access Hollywood about how her 14-year marriage suddenly came crashing down. And now, the 45-year-old singer has revealed to Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson brand new painful details about her ex-husband’s alleged betrayal, and how she discovered the tragic news.
"My husband just said that our relationship is over and didn’t necessarily want a divorce. Well, he said, ‘I may not be in a rush to get a divorce,’" Shania told Shaun in a Los Angeles interview on Thursday, referring to her now-ex, Mutt Lange. "But you certainly can’t have your cake and eat it too… I’d understood that our marriage was over, but I did not know that there was an affair going on."
The alleged affair was between her husband at the time – Mutt — and his personal assistant, Marie-Anne Thiebaud – who Shania considered a good friend.
It was Marie-Anne’s husband, Fred, who broke the news to Shania. Marie-Anne has denied the affair.
The painful split took its toll on Shania both emotionally and physically, as she said she went through a period of not being able to eat and experiencing a feeling of extreme cold.
"I was freezing all the time, I couldn’t get my body temperature up," she told Shaun. "I was taking hot baths several times a day, but still freezing so cold that I had to wear my jacket inside. I wasn’t eating anything — I was on fluids [for] a whole week — not a solid bit of food."
Thankfully, in a strange twist of fate, the "From This Moment" singer has found love and is now married to Fred Thiebaud, the ex-husband of Marie-Anne.
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Fred looked on adoringly as Shania opened up to Shaun about how the scorned spouses came together, and married on New Year’s Day 2011 in Puerto Rico.
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The Ending of Marriages and the Issues that comes with it.
Shania is a celebrity in her own right but I am just a normal everyday person who just a year ago found myself in a situation where my marriage ended as well, after 17 yrs. I have been legally separated for a year now. My situation is such that I am still living in the same home as my Ex, something that I am not proud of and don’t want to do and would rather be living somewhere else. However, due to my financial situation as well as the fact that I do have two wonderful children that I want to be in a safe environment that allows them some level of normalcy in their lives. Right now my attention is focused on them making sure the kids are happy, as well as focusing on myself. Just keeping busy and maintaining a positive outlook. My Ex husband and I only communicate very rarely. Only when there is something to talk about the kids, we talk only about basic things, in other words, we speak only when necessary. My 6 yr.old son and I are roommates and no, he doesn’t make a good roommate at all, oh, my, gosh! Especially on weekends. He usually wakes me up pretty early because he’s on school time, and it drives me crazy, oh, my, gosh. This situation I am in won’t last like this forever, not at all. At some point in time I will need to move to a different place and location, but for now this is the way things are. God understands my situation so, I have passed my life over to his hands. I can honestly tell you, it’s not easy, but when things get hard, okay, so I started to cry as I am writing this……when things get really hard, I try to think about my kids you know, I just want them to be happy, that’s all, and if it means I have to be like this for awhile then that’s the sacrifice I make.
When I was a little girl living in the Caribbean my Grandmother made many sacrifices for me, yes, she was my Angel on Earth. She made many sacrifices something that she didn’t have to do but she did so from her heart, I miss her so much, I can’t talk about her without not crying, she meant the world to me. She would have wanted me to do the same thing for my kids. She never let me down, and I don’t want to let my kids down either.
I know exactly how Shania must have felt when she realized her marriage had come to an end like she said, it was a very painful experience for her. I think having great support around you is great if you have it, I don’t know how Shania’s support system was, I know her mother passed away several years ago. For me with the ending of my marriage it was my mom who I leaned on for extra support. On the Oprah Winfrey show recently Shania said, it took her 5 yrs. to get through her pain. I wished it didn’t take her so long though, but everyone handles the ending of a relationship differently on an emotional level. I know it must have been hard for her, especially when things happen that are unexpected and completely out of your control. You have no idea what hit you, so I know how she feels.
Everyone deals with the ending of a relationship differently. For me, it took several months to get through the pain and hurt. It was a very intense, painful and demanding time for me even though it lasted for a few months, it doesn’t mean the pain was any less. Not only had my marriage come to an end, but I was dealing with trying to get my first set of products out to a large retailer in Ontario, so it was a pretty intense time for me, to say the least. Plus, trying not to lose my home at the same time, because the kids were also returning to school last September. Yes, I had my plate full, for sure. I can say with all honesty that I am the kind of person because of my life experiences I refuse to let anyone or anything keep me down for too long. Life is way too short and I don’t want to waste any minute of it, God wants me to be happy and that is what I am striving for going forward with this new chapter of my life.
The past is gone, all I have in life is now this moment and the future is what we make of it. Shania also admitted that she haven’t been out singing for the past 5 yrs now because she was so hurt by the failure of the marriage she lost her voice, her ability to sing, but she is working on it, and hope to return to singing again. “Isn’t that hard though, the fact that she lost her voice because she was so hurt over the ending of her marriage?” I know how difficult it must have been for her, especially when you have invested so many years into a marriage only for it to end and fall apart and it wasn’t your fault. I hope she starts singing again, I love all her songs, especially since I am big Country Music Fan.
Shania was recently quoted in Chatelaine Magazine as saying,
“For the first week after finding out about the affair, I was ready to die—to go to bed forever and never wake up. Or to hurt someone. I was ready to do something desperate, but in reality, there was nothing to do but to suffer through it. Fortunately, when you’re a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.”
Shania is right. Your child or children helps keep you going, it buffers the pain and because you have to stay aware at all times for the child or children that you have. It is true that God works in mysterious but miraculous ways, because while I was going through the ending of my marriage, I was busy trying to get a large order out to a retailer. So, I had no time at all to focus on my marriage that had come to a sudden end after 17 yrs. I was busy for several months right up the Christmas season with business as well, my kids kept me busy too. I strongly believe that the order from the retailer was a gift from God, I would say it was my “Saving Grace” so to speak. It was G0d’s way to keep me busy and alert, not depressed you know what I mean. God knows I needed that, it was a stressful time for me, but been busy kept me from focusing on my pain, so that was good. Then on top of that, just out of clear blue sky, “oh, my, gosh!” I’m laughing with myself, as if I didn’t have enough to deal with already, I go get myself falling inlove with someone who I think have the most gorgeous eyes I have ever seen, and I had no idea that was coming, that just happened to knocked me on my head unexpectedly. Anyway, that’s a whole other story, a story that I will keep safely tucked away in my heart. Yep! The universe definately had me on my toes.
Anyway, in reference to Shania the only thing I would have done differently and that is, I would not if I were her even if I was inlove with the man who’s wife had the affair with her husband, I would not marry him. For me, it’s all about ethics, values, traditions, conscience, and doing what is right. Conscience is a huge thing for me, I have to be able to sleep at night, oh, my, gosh! You know what I mean. I couldn’t see myself doing that, but that’s just me. Personally, I would feel uncomfortable marrying the guy who’s wife cheated with my husband, I wouldn’t do that at all, something doesn’t feel right about the whole thing. This situation almost feels similar to when a guy is going out with a girl but then another friend or relative or a brother wants to date the girl. It feels similar because everyone knows each other and is in the same inner circle, you know what I mean.
That kind of set up would certainly make me feel uncomfortable to say the least. See, I wouldn’t date a guy’s friend or brother, if the relationship between me and them did not work out. It’s about respecting people and caring about how they would feel if that happens. Doing something like that where a girl dates a guy’s friend or brother would show lack of respect not only for themselves but that shows lack of respect for the person who they were dating previously, It would hurt the guy terribly even if they don’t say so openly. Plus no one would have respect for the girl including the guy’s family, I would think they wouldn’t. It’s about doing what’s right, plus my conscience would just kill me, for sure it would, oh, my, gosh!
However, Shania feels it’s okay, and that there is nothing wrong with that, so I will respect her decision. Everyone deserves to be happy and if that’s how the universe wants her to experience it, well, so be it. Shania says, she fell inlove with Fred and he did with her, but for her sake I just wished she didn’t marry him. It would have been better for her to just stay friends with him. That is just my opinion. My Grandmother would have told me no, don’t do it. Oh, my, gosh! I could hear her in the back my head telling me, “it’s wrong child don’t do anything like that,” and you know what she was always right. I hope everything works out for Shania though, she did find love again and life is for living and she is following her own bliss and you know what, she deserves to be happy after all that she went through, I am happy for her. Who am I or anyone else to say anything about how she should live her life or what her life would be like later down the road, I wish her all the best.
As for me, I know God will open another door for me again, he always has a plan but you never know what his plan is, he always likes to surprise us. I have already gone through the pain of the ending of my marriage, the healing, the recovery and I was ready and open for love a year ago and I am still ready for love, Yep! Ready, and open for God to do his work. Whenever God decides to let it happen. If it were not for my strong Faith, Spirituality and trust in God I would not have been able to heal as fast as I did. However, I do trust God completely and I know that this new chapter of my life is blessed by God and that he has my best interest at heart. Yes, without any doubt or reservation I am ready for the next chapter of my life to unfold.
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Stormie Omartian Prayer of The Day
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When You Need to Be Delivered from Fear
Lord, help me not to fear what others think of me. Help me to remember that because You have saved me and Your Spirit lives within me, the things judgmental people say cannot ultimately hurt me. When people say things that are critical, help me to let those things roll off my back and not stay in my mind and heart. Thank You that although hurtful words may come and go, my salvation lasts forever.
Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people in whose heart is My law: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their insults. For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but My righteousness will be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.
ISAIAH 51:7-8
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Featured Musicians of the Week:
“Shania Twain & Chrisette Michele”
Shania Twain, born Eilleen Regina Edwards is 45 yrs.old 
and is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning 27 BMI Songwriter awards. Shania have a son, Eja D’Angelo (pronounced "Asia") who was born on August 12, 2001.
This song was the soundtrack for the Movie: “Notting Hill” starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, a great romantic comedy.
This is a beautiful song by Shania, today I dedicate this song by Shania to someone who is very close to my heart who touched my life in a very profound way last summer…..Enjoy!
Chrisette Michele Payne is 28 yrs.old, 
known professionally as Chrisette Michele, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter on the Island Def Jam Music Group. She won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2009 for her song "Be OK". Michele was born in Central Islip, New York, and grew up in Patchogue. Her father was a deacon and her mother a choir director. Michele led gospel choirs in high school. Genres R&B, soul, jazz, hip-hop soul http://www.thisischrisettemichele.com/
I love Chrisette, great Jazz singer, I dedicate this song to someone whom I love dearly who is in thoughts everyday, I do miss them from my heart and soul and hope they are okay. Yes, where ever they are right now this song is for them.
Great Singer—-Enjoy!
This beautiful classical song by Anita Baker I dedicate to the person I refer to as “Bright Eyes” this is for you baby, where ever you are right now this song is for you……I wish you could hear it.
Enjoy!
“O” Is For The Only One I See…….Oh, my, gosh!
Enjoy the song!
