Shania Twain talks about how she was sexually abused by her stepfather

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Shania Twain detailed suffering horrific childhood sexual abuse by her stepfather in an emotional interview on the Today Show in New York City on Thursday.The 57-year-old You're Still The One singer - who is promoting her album Queen Of Me - first claimed she had been abused in 2018 by her stepfather Jerry Twain.On the show, Shania talked to Hoda Kotb about how being fondled as a child by her stepfather made her embarrassed of her body.

Now the iconic singer says she is trying to embrace her body which is why she posed nude for the album cover. 'I'm the boss of me,' she said.Shania did not know her biological father.

Her stepfather Jerry and her mother Sharon died in a car crash in 1987. Tragic Shania Twain detailed suffering horrific childhood sexual abuse by her stepfather in an emotional interview on the Today Show in New York City on ThursdayWhen asked what her album title meant to her, the That Don't Impress Me Much singer said: 'It means taking responsibility, ownership, of yourself.' During the sit down she also said she went with nude photography for her album cover as a way to deal with the horrible things her stepfather put her through when she was a child. 'It's really about saying I was abused as a kid,' she said. '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.' NBC Universal Privacy Policy  A Queen: On the show, Shania sat down with Hoda Kotb and talked about her upcoming album Queen Of Me and how growing up in a violent home changed her lifeShe continued: '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.