Twain Discloses Childhood Abuse, Divorce in Book
- First Posted: May 04 2011 08:46 AM
- Updated: about 2 hours ago
Country music legend Shania Twain witnessed her stepfather abuse her mother while growing up hungry in northern Ontario.
Singer Shania Twain reveals in a just-released autobiography the abuse she and her mother faced at the hands of her stepfather while she grew up impoverished in Timmins, Ont. Twain, who's sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, witnessed her stepfather punch and drag her mother by the hair out of bed on several occasions, and once intervened by smashing a chair over his back. Twain and her four siblings often had only bread and mustard for food, and had to wear plastic bags over their shoes to keep their feet dry in the winter. Twain also details her divorce from her producer Robert “Mutt” Lange, who left the iconic singer for her secretary, an affair that left Twain unable to sing for some time.
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