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Shania Twain Thought She Would ‘Never Sing Again’ After Difficult Lyme Disease Battle
Shania Twain ain’t no quitter, but her tough experience with battling Lyme disease did bring on its challenges.“There was a long time I thought I would never sing again,” the country singer, 54, said on ITV’s Loose Women on Monday, August 17. “It took years to get to the bottom of what was affecting my voice, 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, and I was just out horseback riding in the forest when I got bit by a tick, a Lyme tick.”Twain added, “You start avoiding speaking on the phone, you start avoiding going to places that have ambient noise where you have to speak over the volume of others.