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Shania Twain reflects on being told Lyme disease meant she might never sing again

Shania Twain reveals what it was like to be told she might never sing again

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Shania Twain has recalled the “depressing and devastating” realisation she was told she may never sing again after contracting Lyme disease and having open-throat surgery.

The country music queen, 57, contracted the tick-borne illness in 2003, and her voice was damaged by the effects of dysphonia as a result.

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