Shania Twain breaks silence on ’scary’ battle for life with Covid

Shania Twain has spoken out about the “very scary” moment she needed to be choppered to hospital during the pandemic.

Shania Twain. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty

Shania Twain has revealed she was so sick with Covid and pneumonia during the pandemic she needed to be flown to hospital and is just “so grateful” she made it through.

The “dangerous” and “scary” ordeal in which she struggled to breathe even inspired a new track on her upcoming album Queen of Me, titled Inhale/Exhale Air.

The 57-year-old was at her home in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva when her health went down hill.

“It was progressively getting worse. My vital signs were getting worse,” she told The Mirror in an interview ahead of her album release on Friday.

Twain said her husband, Swiss businessman Frédéric Thiébaud, had spent “hours and hours on the phone every day” trying to get his wife a hospital bed.

“It was just a real nightmare for him,” the Grammy winner said.

Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain has revealed she was so suck with Covid she had to be flown to hospital. Picture: Jean-Baptiste Lacroix / AFP

She added: “I thought, ‘Wow, if I was living alone in a more isolated scenario, I don’t know what would have happened’. My heart goes out to people who don’t have that support to help them get the right care.”

Twain split with her first husband Robert “Mutt” Lange in 2008. According to Twain, Thiébaud broke the news to her that Lange and Twain’s close friend (and Thiébaud’s wife) Marie-Anne Thiébaud were having an affair.

Twain and Thiébaud bonded over the situation and ended up getting married themselves in 2011.

Twain at a film premiere in Zurich, Switzerland in 2021. Picture: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for ZFF

Ms Twain said the moment she was flown to hospital felt like “science fiction”.

“I felt like I was going to another planet or something,” she told The Mirror. “It all kind of happened in slow motion.”

While in hospital she was treated with plasma therapy.

“It took several days to start building up any antibodies at all, so it was a very dangerous time and very scary,” she said.

But it was not the major first health scare for Twain.

The country singer contracted Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick in 2003 and at one point, due to damage to her vocal chords, thought she would never sing again. She has undergone two open-throat surgeries.

Her sixth studio album Queen of Me comes out on Friday.