Country star Shania Twain said she holds no animosity toward her ex-husband Robert "Mutt" Lange despite his infidelity, though she confessed she feels "sad" for him.
On the latest episode of the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, the singer discussed her relationship with Lange, whom she married in 1993. Their marriage ended in 2008 after his affair with her close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud. Interestingly, Twain later married Marie-Anne's former husband, Frédéric Thiébaud. The couple wed in 2011 and remain happily married.
Speaking to Lainge about her marriage to Lange and the subsequent fallout, she said:
"Forgiveness is in the family of letting go. 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 ... Maybe you believe forever that whatever they did was wrong."
"Do I hate my ex-husband for making a mistake? No. It's his mistake. Not my mistake."
"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."
You can hear what she said in the audio below.
Many appreciated Twain's candor.
Twain most recently spoke about her ex-husband during an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast last year.
At the time, she recalled that her now-husband Thiébaud handled the news of his own wife's affair with Lange much better than she did. She said he "was so thoughtful about it all" and ultimately handled the situation in a much healthier way than she did.
She added:
"I was uncontrollably fragile over it, which I had never felt before ever because I thought for once I was stable. I really believe that I'm safe, so that really devastated me I think more than any other instability I've ever felt."
Twain noted that she “didn’t really know Fred very well” before her ex’s affair. She praised him for “how gracefully and graciously he was dealing with navigating the same pain.”
Twain confirmed that Lange and Marie-Anne are still together but that she and Lange don''t speak at all unless they have to discuss their son, who is now in his early 20s. She said she and Lange "both love our son so much, so we don’t play any games like that" and that they "have the same priority, we share spaces for him."
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