Shania Twain Says She Doesn't 'Hate' Ex-Husband for Affair: 'A Great Mistake He Has to Live with'

Shania Twain feels no hatred towards her ex-husband Robert “Mutt” Lange despite his affair.

During the latest episode Great company with Jamie Laing podcast, the Canadian singer, 58, was asked about Lange, 75, whom she married in 1993 before they split in 2008 following his affair with her close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud.

Twain has since married Marie-Anne’s then-husband, Frédéric Thiébaud (54). The couple tied the knot in 2011 and are still going strong.

Speaking to host Laing on the May 28 episode about dealing with forgiveness in her own life, she said: “Forgiveness is in the family of letting go. But forgiveness, more specifically for me anyway, doesn’t necessarily mean forgetting. It’s about understanding the other person, and that might mean they’re wrong… You might forever believe that everything they did was wrong.”

Shania Twain with her ex-husband Mutt Lange.

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Twain, who has a son with her ex, Eja D’Angelo Lange, 22, later added: “Do I hate my ex-husband because he made a mistake? No. It’s his mistake. Not my mistake.”

“So sad for him that he made such a big mistake that he has to live with. And I don’t know what it is, but it’s not… It’s not my weight,” she continued.

The “You’re Still The One” hitmaker has opened up about her difficult childhood and the emotional and physical abuse she endured at the hands of her stepfather Jerry.

During a discussion about forgiveness, Twain said, “My father is a better example, all right, because he’s someone I forgive completely.”

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Shania Twain and her husband Frédéric Thiébaud.

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“I understand that he wasn’t feeling well, that you don’t act a certain way unless there’s something wrong with you. There’s something wrong with your stability,” the musician added.

“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 someone that you believe in,” Twain continued.

“He’s a human being who deserves empathy and understanding. I think we all do, you know? If you’re a criminal, just because you’re… you don’t hate your own parent or I’m speaking for him, you know?” Twain, whose mother Sharon and stepfather Jerry were killed in a car accident in 1987, moved on.

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Twain’s latest comments about her ex-husband come after she opened up about the affair on Armchair expert podcast last year.

The Grammy-winning singer said her now-husband Thiébaud handled the news much better than she did at the time. “He was so careful about everything … He wasn’t cool, but he was smarter about it,” she said.

“I was uncontrollably fragile because of it, which I’ve never felt before because at least once I thought I was stable. I really believe that I’m safe, so it really destroyed me, I think more than any other instability I’ve ever felt,” he added at the time Twain.

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