Shania Twain says her Lyme disease battle was “devastating”.
The Man! I Feel Like a Woman! hitmaker contracted the tick-borne illness in 2003 and was forced to undergo open-throat surgery after her voice was damaged by the effects of dysphonia as a result of the disease.
“I’m never going to have my old voice again.”
— Shania Twain
And now, Shania has said she “mourned” the loss of her voice because she thought her disease would mean she’d never be able to sing again.
She said: “It was devastating… I felt I had no other choice but to just accept it – in that I would never sing again. I was mourning the expression of my voice.”
After taking some time away from the spotlight to recover, Shania made her music comeback in 2017, complete with a new gravelly tone to her voice, which she now believes is “kinda sexy”.
Speaking in a preview clip for an upcoming interview on ‘Sunday Today’, she added: “I’m never going to have my old voice again. I’m okay with that. I’ve found a new voice and I like it. [It’s] kinda sexy.”
