Shania Twain doesn’t ”regret” her husband cheating on her with her friend.
The ‘Still the One’ hitmaker was left devastated seven years ago when Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange – the father of her 13-year-old son Eja – left her for pal Marie-Anne Thiébaud and she admits she wishes she’d never met her former friend.
Asked what she would say if she ran into Marie Anne, Shania – who is now married to Marie-Anne’s ex-husband Frédéric – said: ”I’d say, ‘I wish I’d never met you’.
”I think there are just some people in life you would say, ‘I wish I hadn’t met this person or I would have been better off not ever knowing that person’.
”But I can’t say I would be better off because I think I learned a lot from all of that. I don’t regret it.”
The 49-year-old singer recalled having a panic attack when she first saw her friend after the affair was exposed and admitted she didn’t know what to do.
Speaking on ‘Watch What Happens Live’, she said: ”You know, you panic in those situations. I didn’t know what to do.”
The 49-year-old singer completed a two-year Las Vegas residency in December 2014 and admitted it was a ”hill” she needed to get through to boost her confidence before considering working on a new album as it would be her first music without her producer ex-husband on board.
She said: ”I needed to get over a different hill in my career without him before tackling an album.
”Now that I’m through Vegas and that was success, I built a lot of confidence.”