Shania Twain reveals she will never forget ex-husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange's affair but insists

Shania Twain reveals she will never forget ex-husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange's affair but insists he 'deserves empathy and understanding' after his fling with her best friend

Shania Twain has revealed that she will not forget her cheating ex-husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange's 'mistake', but she will try to understand him.

The singer, 58, was married to Robert, 75, who cheated on her with her former best friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud, from 1993 until their split in 2008.

The pair famously had a couple's swap when Shania married Marie-Anne's former spouse, Frédéric Thiébaud, 54, six months after her divorce was finalised.
Shania revealed that while she has some forgiveness for her ex, she will not 'necessarily forget' what he did as she admitted that she feels 'sad for him'.

Speaking to Jamie Laing on his Great Company podcast, she explained that despite his previous problems, he deserves empathy and understanding.
When asked about Robert and forgiveness, she said: '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.

'Maybe you believe forever that whatever they did was wrong. Or maybe you believe that... Like in my father's a better example, okay, because this is someone that I totally forgive.

'But I understand that he wasn't well, that you don't act certain ways unless there's something wrong with you.

'I feel bad that he had those problems. So, it's not for him, not for, you know. So, it's very hard to hate or not be able to forgive somebody that you believe.

'He’s a human being that deserves empathy and understanding. I think we all do, you know. If you're a criminal, you know, just 'cause you're, you don't hate your own parent or I'm speaking for myself, you know.

'So, do I hate my ex -husband for making a mistake? No. It's his mistake. Not my mistake. So sad for him that he made such a great mistake that he has to live with. And I don't know what that is, but it's not. That's not my weight.'

Shania previously revealed that Robert and her former pal Marie-Anne were still married 15 years after their affair was exposed.

Speaking on the Armchair Expert podcast with co-hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman, the Man! I Feel Like A Woman songstress revealed she and Robert co-parent son Eja, 22, but never speak.
She said: 'Mutt and I parent well together — for people who don’t talk to each other. 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. No nonsense there.

Confirming Robert was still with Marie-Anne, she spoke about the beginning of her relationship with Frédéric, branding the romance a 'beautiful surprise' and 'what she deserved.'

She quipped about the couple 'playing musical chairs' when they swapped, but said she 'didn’t really know Fréd very well' before their respective splits.

Shania said she saw 'how gracefully and graciously he was dealing with navigating the same pain' after the affair was exposed, and while she felt 'fragile', he seemed 'thoughtful.'

She said: 'Fréd’s so smart. This is one of the smartest people I know, [and] he didn’t know [about the affair] either. That helped me feel better. I got what I deserve. I got the greatest man on the planet.'

Shania found out about the affair between her ex and her best friend the day after he asked her for a divorce.

She previously said of the moment: 'I had a total panic attack. I just told her that she was a bad person - that's all I could get out!'

'When I left her, I thought, "You're such a wimp, you coward!"'

Shania and Marie-Anne were very close friends. They had met when Marie-Anne was employed to be the assistant and interpreter of the singer's husband, Lange.
The couple had moved to Switzerland for a simpler life away from the limelight after the country star had seen her career sky-rocket to become a best selling cross-over artist.

In the days following the split in 2008, Shania said she went into a tailspin.

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