Shania Twain tells Oprah ‘she didn’t want to live’ after discovering husband and friend were cheating on her

(HMG Celebrity News) -  In a very candid interview today on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Shania Twain recounts the breakup of her marriage in 2008, and just how betrayed she felt when she found out her friend, Marie-Anne Thiebaud, and her husband, Mutt Lange, were cheating on her.

“I didn’t want to kill myself but I didn’t want to live,” Twain tells Oprah In her first television interview in more than five years: “I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I’ve never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.”

With Oprah egging her on Twain reads a passage from her new book, From This Moment On, on how she was “freezing cold all the time” and would take five hot baths a day. Even after that, she’d “wear a winter coat” over her pajamas. She was chilled, but sweating profusely. She felt she was “forcing the pain out of my pores so I wouldn’t drown in it.”

That lasted for a week.

Although she wanted to know the details of how Lange, her husband of 14 years and Thiebault had come to fall in love, she says, “I never did get any of the details. I phoned Marie-Anne, of course, and she changed her number and that was it.”

Matt and Marie-Anne “have never admitted to infidelity,” said Twain, who also read a letter she had written pleading with Marie-Anne who was also a secretary at the couple’s Switzerland chateau to leave her husband alone. “Find love from someone else, somewhere else. … All of us have to suffer for the two of you. It just isn’t right.”

“I know it was pathetic,” Twain says of the letter. “But we all have pathetic moments. No one is above this type of low.”

Twain,  whose divorce from Lange was finalized in June 2010, says her voice “shut down” because of the trauma, and thought she “would never sing again.”

She recently went to a doctor in Nashville and discovered that she suffers from a condition called dysphonia, which she describes as the muscles in her throat squeezing her voice box.

Twain said, “I’ll always be sad that my marriage ended.”

Ultimately, Twain insisted that she was grateful to have learned the truth about her relationship with Lange, adding: “I needed the wake-up.” And her story has a happy if not strange ending. Four months ago, she married Frederic Thiebaud, Marie-Anne’s ex-husband, in a sunset ceremony in Rincon, Puerto Rico on New Year’s Day 2011.

Source for some quotes: USA