Shania Twain in Lorraine for her new album, Queen Of Me

Shania Twain has spoken about the life-changing surgical procedure she had to suffer after Lyme sickness led to her struggling nerve harm to her vocal cords. In order for the surgical treatment to be as profitable as possible, the singer has printed she had to be conscious throughout the whole operation. During an look on Thursday’s Lorraine to promote her new album, Queen Of Me, Shania admitted she was once extra afraid of now not being in a position to sing once more than the op itself. Explaining her combat with Lyme disorder and the life-changing surgical procedure that restored her voice, she said: “It used to be pretty depressing, devastating to think about that I would by no means sing again, even speaking, truely has constantly been challenging with Lyme disease. “But I’m simply feeling so grateful to sooner or later sing and specific myself. “This’ll be the first album on the grounds that my operation on my voice - you have to be wakeful for this operation. “I was once extra afraid of in no way singing once more than some thing it took to get thru that operation...I selected the lesser of the two fears. “The motive you have to be unsleeping for it [the operation] is so you can sing for the duration of the operation. They have to be in a position to see your larynx in action, you have to talk and sing.” The That Don’t Impress Me Much singer was once identified with Lyme disorder after she used to be bitten through a tick whilst horseback riding. In an until now interview with the Associated Press, the 57-year-old big name described the op as “horrible”. “It used to be horrible,” she said. “I’m now not going to lie. But there was once no way round it. It used to be the solely way. The selection to do the surgical treatment used to be speedy for me, however the recuperation was once pretty lengthy and very, very painful. “They actually had to stretch the larynx, cross the whole thing over and put these crutches in there. You’re singing and you speak, so they apprehend that you have symmetrical closure — which I didn’t have before.”