In the late '90s and early '00s, country superstar Shania Twain ruled the charts, but she abruptly disappeared from the spotlight following 2002's Up! and didn't release another album for another 15 years. Now, she has shed some light on the Lyme disease diagnosis that sidelined her career.
In the newly released Netflix documentary, Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl, Twain explains how she was bitten by a tick while horseback riding in 2003.
"My symptoms were quite scary, because, before I was diagnosed, I was on stage feeling dizzy, I was losing my balance. I was afraid I was going to fall off the stage, and the stage is quite high," Twain says in the film. "So I was staying far from the edge, I was adjusting what I was doing. I was having these very, very, millisecond blackouts — but regularly, like, every minute, or every 30 seconds."
While she recovered from her illness, Twain tells the cameras, "My voice was never the same again. It just went into this strange, flanging, lack of control of the airflow. … I thought I'd lost my voice forever. I thought that was it. I would never, ever sing again."
She did, of course, sing again. Not Just a Girl reveals how Lionel Ritchie coaxed Twain out of her hiatus in order to sing a duet with him for the 2012 album Tuskegee. In more recent years, Twain released the album Now in 2017, and she duetted with Orville Peck last year.
In the newly released Netflix documentary, Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl, Twain explains how she was bitten by a tick while horseback riding in 2003.
"My symptoms were quite scary, because, before I was diagnosed, I was on stage feeling dizzy, I was losing my balance. I was afraid I was going to fall off the stage, and the stage is quite high," Twain says in the film. "So I was staying far from the edge, I was adjusting what I was doing. I was having these very, very, millisecond blackouts — but regularly, like, every minute, or every 30 seconds."
While she recovered from her illness, Twain tells the cameras, "My voice was never the same again. It just went into this strange, flanging, lack of control of the airflow. … I thought I'd lost my voice forever. I thought that was it. I would never, ever sing again."
She did, of course, sing again. Not Just a Girl reveals how Lionel Ritchie coaxed Twain out of her hiatus in order to sing a duet with him for the 2012 album Tuskegee. In more recent years, Twain released the album Now in 2017, and she duetted with Orville Peck last year.
