Country icon Shania Twain has gotten candid about her throat surgery, as per Whiskey Riff.
In case you weren't aware, the "From This Moment" singer had her legendary music career hampered from Lyme's disease. The terrible tick-borne disease, which she got from horse riding, led to her being unable to sing at all.
But, in a lucky turn of events, surgery was available to get her legendary voice back. It's called "open-throat" surgery. Yes, it's as gross as it sounds - they literally open the throat to perform the surgery. The procedure itself involves surgeons placing Gore-Tex implants which help the vocal cords to close properly.
And the country icon has got candid about exactly what she went through during her procedure. Unlike most surgeries - especially "open" ones like open heart surgery - she said that "you have to be awake for the surgery".
"You have to be brave, and you have to make a choice," she said about the operation. For the country icon, it was a big thing - she couldn't even speak for three weeks following the procedure.
But for her, it was a case of "What do I have to lose?". She added, "I either never singe again, I'll never be able to cope with any hour and a half, two hours of singing live, or I get the operation and I take the chance."
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But, strangely enough, Shania Twain wasn't the only artist to experience such issues. Although Jon Bon Jovi didn't have Lyme's disease, he was facing a pretty similar situation to the country icon back in 2022.
She recalled that after they'd first met, purely by chance on a flight, he'd asked her to "share everything you know about how you got back singing live after nerve atrophy in the voice."
The country icon gave him some good advice. "I shared my surgeon's information with him, and I shared my experience with him, and I encouraged him to weigh up all the scenarios: I told him it worked for me, and I was honest, I was transparent, I think he really appreciated that and was able to take it all on board."
