Shania Twain says that she doesn't hate her ex-husband for having an affair, which ended their marriage in 2008.
Appearing on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, the Timmins, ON native was asked about her feelings towards ex-husband Mutt Lange, who left Twain for her close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud after 15 years of marriage.
"Do I hate my ex-husband for making a mistake? No. It's his mistake. Not my mistake," Twain said to Laing. "So sad for him that he made such a great mistake that he has to live with. And I don't know what that is, but it's not ... That's not my weight."
Twain and Lange, a record producer who has recorded best-selling albums by AC/DC and Bryan Adams, married in 1993 and collaborated on her albums, The Woman In Me and Come On Over, which have sold over a combined 60 million copies. The couple split in a highly-publicized twist, where Twain ended up marrying Frédéric Thiébaud, the husband of her own husband's mistress in 2011.
When asked if she forgives Lange, Twain replied that while she can forgive, forgetting about his affair is much harder to do.
"Forgiveness is in the family of letting go," she said. "But forgiveness, more specifically for me anyway, is not about forgetting necessarily. It's about understanding the other person, and that might mean that they're wrong ... Maybe you believe forever that whatever they did was wrong."