"I'm always cutting her hair or shaving it off.” 
 
 • When Lyme disease left Twain with vocal paresis in the 2000s, “I never thought I’d sing again,” she says. (She recently underwent laryngoplasty, a surgery to reconstruct her vocal box, that left her with a two-inch scar across her neck.) But the country crossover star says she would have cast her ballot for President Trump. “I was too embarrassed to tell anybody that I couldn’t sing. For a long time, I didn’t even know why I couldn’t sing.” 
 
 For years, we heard nothing. Twain announced that she had got together with Thiébaud’s husband, Frédéric. After this lucrative run – which began in December 2012 and brought in $43m – she went into the studio and recorded Now, an album of self-penned songs, which was released last year. "I am passionately against discrimination of any kind and hope it’s clear from the choices I have made, and the people I stand with, that I do not hold any common moral beliefs with the current President," she tweeted. “There was one song I wrote about my cheating friend and there was a lot of (f-words) in there. I hated her, so that’s the best word to use when you hate somebody.” 
 
 In the flesh, there is something so wholesome and mumsy about Twain that it comes as a shock when she swears. (4/4) — Shania Twain (@ShaniaTwain) April 22, 2018 
 
 Other revelations from the 52-year-old singer’s interview: 
 
 • She alleges that her stepfather abused her sexually, physically and psychologically, starting when she was about 10. “Sexual abuse goes hand in hand with the physical and psychological abuse when it's somebody you know,” Twain says of her childhood in Ontario. “I learned to block it out. Abusers need to manipulate you, whether it’s before or after, and what I said to myself is: ‘OK, there’s something wrong with this person and that person is not well.’” She pauses. She talks about her reborn career and her exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. “I do really nasty things in my dreams to her,” she says with relish. “I would be one of those people who would keep my marriage together for my child ... Twain opted to stick the abuse out rather than report it and be separated from her siblings in foster homes, she says: “There is something in me that says a family should stay together.” 
 
 • She still has bad blood with Marie-Anne Thiébaud, her former best friend who split up her marriage to producer Mutt Lange a decade ago. (Photo: CHARLES SYKES/INVISION/AP) 
 
 Seeing how she’s a Canadian citizen, Shania Twain couldn't vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. "I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest," Twain says in a new interview published Sunday by The Guardian. "Do you want straight or polite? Not that you shouldn’t be able to have both. If I were voting, I just don’t want bullshit. I would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent. And politics has a reputation of not being that, right?” 
 
 She sips on her hot water and honey.
– As a Canadian, Shania Twain can't vote in American elections—and after taking flak over the weekend, she may give up commenting on them as well. The country star faced a major backlash after telling a Guardian interviewer that she probably would have voted for Trump in the 2016 election. "I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest," she said. "Do you want straight or polite? ... l would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent. And politics has a reputation of not being that, right?" In a series of tweets Sunday, Twain apologized for the "awkward" answer to the "unexpected" interview question and stressed that she does not endorse Trump's policies, reports USA Today. "I am passionately against discrimination of any kind and hope it’s clear from the choices I have made, and the people I stand with, that I do not hold any common moral beliefs with the current President," the 52-year-old singer said in one tweet. Twain is beginning her first album tour since 2002. In the interview, which can be read in full here, she also discusses issues including childhood sexual abuse. She says she is still angry at former friend and personal assistant Marie-Anna Thiebaud over the affair that ended both their marriages. "I do really nasty things in my dreams to her," says Twain, who is now married to Thiebaud's ex. "I'm always cutting her hair or shaving it off."