Everything to Know About Shania Twain’s Netflix Documentary ‘Not Just a Girl’

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The woman in her — on TV! Shania Twain is getting her own Netflix documentary, and it’s debuting sooner than you might think.Titled Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl, the new film will track the Grammy winner’s rise to fame as a country star who later crossed over to pop. “Taking the risks to do things your way can be scary,” the “Come on Over” songstress says in a trailer. “You gotta be brave.”The movie also features interviews with Twain’s friends, colleagues and admirers, including Lionel Richie, Diplo and fellow country artist Kelsea Ballerini. “She was the first person to break that door open and go across the music genres,” the American Idol judge says in an interview. “She was that trailblazer.”The film will seemingly touch on the Canada native’s personal struggles as well, including a battle with Lyme disease that left her worried she could never sing again and her headline-making split from ex-husband Robert John “Mutt” Lange. “I thought I lost my voice forever,” the “Up!” singer says in the teaser video. “I thought that was it.”Twain previously revealed that she contracted the illness after being bitten by a tick in 2003 while horseback riding in Norfolk, Virginia. “It took years to get to the bottom of what was affecting my voice,” the musician recalled during an August 2020 appearance on the U.K.

talk show Loose Women. “And I would say probably a good seven years before a doctor was able to find out that it was nerve damage to my vocal cords directly caused by Lyme disease.”The CMA Award winner underwent open-throat surgery to stabilize her vocal cords.

She believes the procedure changed her voice, but it also made it possible for her to sing again. “My speaking voice is definitely the biggest effort.