Shania Twain opens up about career-long stage fright, most embarrassing live moments: ‘I just froze’
nypost.comtold Taste of Country this week. “I’m a very spontaneous speaker and thinker, so if I get rambling, they might have to take the hook out and get me off the stage.”Twain, who has been performing since she was about 8 years old, said she’s dealt with stage fright her entire career. “I’ve always had terrible stage fright,” the “You’re Still the One” singer told CTV in Canada in 2019, “So, I think the only way to deal with it would be for me to just forget about what I was doing and jump right into ‘We’re all in this together’ to not feel isolated.”She added, “I’m still the 8-year-old who is afraid to go on stage and as soon as I’m embraced by the audience, then I don’t feel like I’m standing alone.” She said at the time that getting herself onto a stage is “not a step, it’s a leap.
It’s a jump. You know, Pavaratti said every night before going on stage, just before going on stage, ‘OK, everybody, it’s time to die,’ because it feels like you’re crossing a threshold, this petrifying threshold and it literally is a leap.
It’s the unknown every night. That’s the thing about live. It’s so unknown. I don’t even want to say it, but things happen that are unexpected.”“Sometimes you forget the words.
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