Shania Twain, 57, Opens Up About Being Sexually Abused By Her Stepfather

While Appearing on the “TODAY” Show on Thursday Morning, the singer Shania Twain As she shared her story about being sexually abused as a child by her stepfather, she couldn’t help but feel emotional.

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Twain Discusses Sexual Abuse

Daily Mail It was reported that Twain57-year-old he went on “TODAY” To promote her new album “Queen Of Me,” But the conversation quickly shifted to Twain’s stepfather Jerry As she explained why her body had always embarrassed her, she claimed that she was sexually abusing her as an infant. Twain She never knew her biological father and her mother and stepfather died in a car accident in 1987. 

Twain Explain to the host Hoda Kotb that she decided to pose nude on the album’s cover as a way of dealing with the abuse her stepfather put her through decades ago. 

“I’m the boss of me,” Twain Defiantly said.

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‘This Is Who I Am’

“It’s really about saying I was abused as a kid,” Twain explained. “My stepfather would fondle me up on the top and make me go without a shirt and I was already maturing. This cringy horrible wanting to escape being in my own skin.”

“It’s time to start loving myself in my own skin and really embracing that and not being embarrassed of it or shy of it. This is who I am,” She added. “Loving who you are. I’m my own royalty. I’m the boss of me, and I’m responsible for the decisions I make, for what I say, for what I do. It’s a statement of self-confidence that I’ve grown into more over the last few year.”

That’s why Twain When it came to photographing her new album, she decided to go completely nude.

“I did a whole shoot as part of the album artwork where I’m completely nude and it was really scary, but it was sort of like, you know, I don’t really love my body,” She spoke. “I don’t love looking at myself in the mirror with the lights on or looking at the mirror at all at my body. So I said listen, I’m gonna face that fear.”

Check Out Twain’s full comments on this in the video below.

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Twain’s Previous Comments On Sexual Abuse

Twain The world was first to learn that she had been sexually abused back in 2018 by her stepfather.

“Uh huh, uh huh. I’m not going to go into details about it,” She told The Guardian At the time. “I don’t mind saying it, because I do think it’s important that people understand you can survive these things.”

Twain She stated that she was just 10 years old at the time of the abuse.

“I feel the sexual abuse goes hand in hand with the physical and psychological abuse when it’s somebody you know. I learned to block it out,” She continued. “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.’”

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While it’s horrific to think that Twain had to suffer through sexual abuse, we’re glad to see that she appears to have come out the other side and finally found confidence in her body. You You can learn more about Twain’s journey to finding love for herself when her album drops on February 3! 

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