Shania Twain doesn't have any hate toward her ex-husband over his affair. On a recent episode of the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, the 58-year-old Canadian singer was asked about Robert "Mutt" Lange, whom she married in 1993.
The former pair eventually divorced in 2008 after the now 75-year-old record producer had an affair with her close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud. Shania is now married to Marie-Anne's then husband, Frédéric Thiébaud. Shania and Frédéric tied the knot to in 2011.
"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," she said. "Maybe you believe forever that whatever they did was wrong."
"Do I hate my ex-husband for making a mistake?" she continued. "No. It's his mistake. Not my mistake." The former couple share a son, 22-year-old Eja D'Angelo Lange.
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"So sad for him that he made such a great mistake that he has to live with," the singer added. "And I don't know what that is, but it's not … That's not my weight."
On the the Armchair Expert podcast in 2023, Shania also opened up about her ex-husband's affair and getting married to her former friend's then-husband. "He was so thoughtful about it all," she said of Frédéric. "It was not cool with him, but he was smarter about it."
"I was uncontrollably fragile over it, which I had never felt before ever because I thought for once I was stable," she continued. "I really believe that I'm safe, so that really devastated me I think more than any other instability I've ever felt."
Robert and Shania still have a co-parenting relationship, and it appears that he is still with Marie-Anne. "Mutt and I parent well together — for people who don’t talk to each other,” Shania said in a previous interview. “We’ll just text. We both love our son so much, so we don’t play any games like that. We have the same priority, we share spaces for him."
As far as Marie-Anne, Shania doesn't have a friendship with her any longer. "I don’t invite that trigger into my life. … She’s not my future. She’s my past."
But Shania isn't living with any regrets. "I think everyone gets what they deserve," she previously said. "I got what I deserve — I got the greatest man on the planet.”
