Shania Twain reflects on ex-husband’s ‘great mistake’ cheating with her best friend: ‘Sad for him’
nypost.comhaving an affair with her close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud in 2008.“Forgiveness is in the family of letting go,” Twain said on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast on May 28. “But forgiveness, more specifically for me anyway, is not about forgetting necessarily.”“It’s about understanding the other person, and that might mean that they’re wrong,” she added. “Maybe you believe forever that whatever they did was wrong.”Twain and Lange, 75, were married for 15 years when he had an affair with Marie-Anne.
The pair, who welcomed their son Eja in 2001, separated in 2008 and divorced two years later.In the aftermath of the affair, Twain fell in love with Frédéric Thiébaud, Marie-Anne’s former husband.
They got married in January 2011 and are still together.“Do I hate my ex-husband for making a mistake? No. It’s his mistake.
Not my mistake,” Twain said on the podcast. “So sad for him that he made such a great mistake that he has to live with. And I don’t know what that is, but it’s not … That’s not my weight,” she continued.Twain also acknowledged that her ex-husband had “problems,” which has made it easier to forgive him.“It’s not for him, not for, you know,” she said. “So, it’s very hard to hate or not be able to forgive somebody that you believe.
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