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Fifteen years later, Shania Twain speaks openly about the fallout from her ex-husband and the betrayal of her ex-BFF. On a recent episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Twain recalled feeling “uncontrollably fragile” after producer Robert Lange (better known as Mutt) cheated on her with close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud. “I don’t think a lot of things that have happened to me since my divorce should have been that hard on me,” Twain said. “I should have been less naïve about the ups and downs of life. Maybe I’m too much, like, ‘I’m all over that.'” Twain said the two are still together and that she has “never” spoken to them since the scandal. (She added that she is Lange’s co-parent to her now 21-year-old son via text message.)
After the split, Twain dated and eventually married Marie-Anne’s ex-husband, businessman Frédéric Thiébaud. But she said she wasn’t embarrassed by what Shepard described as a “musical chairs” situation. While she and Lange had dinner with the Thiébauds earlier that weekend, she only met Frédéric after splitting from their respective partners. “I think it was a nice surprise then to see how gracefully and kindly he handled the same pain,” Twain mused. She then appeared to leave a subtle message to the couple who caused that pain: “I think everyone gets what they deserve. I got what I deserve, I have the tallest man in the world. That’s how I see it.”