


Today hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager looked back on the cheating scandal that rocked Shania Twain‘s marriage in 2008 after the singer recently addressed the fallout herself.
Twain made an interesting point when addressing the scandal in a recent interview on the Great Company With Jamie Laing podcast, which the Today hosts then discussed on this morning’s broadcast.
As Kotb explained it, Twain was married to her ex-husband, music producer Mutt Lange, for 15 years when the cheating began. “She had a best friend who was in their orbit and Shania came to find out that her husband, who she loved, and her best friend, who she trusted and loved, were secretly having an affair,” Kotb said. “She felt triple-betrayed.”
Lange’s affair with Twain’s close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud eventually led to their divorce in 2010. But the story has a happy ending.
Kotb continued, “Then Shania found comfort in her best friend’s husband, they were kind of commiserating, and then they developed a relationship, and they’ve been happily married for years.” Twain and Nestle executive Frédéric Thiébaud have been married since 2011.
While discussing her divorce on the podcast, the “That Don’t Impress Me Much” singer made a point that stuck with Kotb and Bush Hager.
“It’s his mistake. Not my mistake,” Twain said on the podcast episode. “So sad for him that he made such a great mistake that he has to live with. I don’t know what that is, but it’s not my weight.”

Kotb said she found Twain’s statement “so interesting.”
“Often when you get cheated on, people are like, somehow you’re part of this whole mess,” she said.
Bush Hager remarked, “It’s interesting too, because I kind of feel like when those scenarios happen, people sometimes blame the women — on both sides.”
Kotb agreed: “Yeah they do. Who stole him and why weren’t you available to him? If your husband can be taken or easily stolen, it always is, ‘Oh, she’s the vixen and he was sort of rambling around not knowing what’s going on.'”
While this may be a valuable lesson for women in relationships, Bush Hager noted that Twain’s point of not carrying this “weight” reinforced her values as a parent.
“Don’t you love that? Women, girls — and I see this when my kids say sorry for everything — you didn’t do anything,” she said. “It’s important to teach our kids to be humble and to own when they mess up and also what not to carry.” She added that she and Kotb apologize “all the time.”
Kotb joked, “All the time, without meaning to. We’re sorry, we won’t do it again.”
Today with Hoda & Jenna airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.