Shania Twain did the unthinkable to please her mum. The singer revealed that she would get out of bed to sing for drunk men in bars as a kid – because it made her mum happy. It left her with stage fright for decades, but the Canadian star insists: "I don’t regret what she did.
" Only when her career was left hanging by a thread by tick-borne Lyme disease did she overcome her fears. Shania, who will perform at Glastonbury this summer for the first time, first sang to make "a few bucks" for her family. Aged eight she would wake up at midnight to head out and do a set.
For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US . READ MORE: West Side Story's Tony Mordente dies, months after ex-wife Chita Rivera She told Dermot O’Leary’s Reel Stories: "I didn’t enjoy it. I didn’t love stinky, smoky bar rooms with drunk men fighting.
" She added: "It did make me really hate being in the spotlight. I had stage fright for a very long time." But speaking of her mum, Sharon, who was a victim of domestic violence at the hands her stepdad, Jerry, said: "My music made her happy.
[Her] plan was I’d be the next Tanya Tucker. I didn’t want do it. I’m petrified.
But my mother was like, 'This is the only way you’re going to get anywhere'." Shania, 58, added that money was vital to the family as "we were hungry" and while she was "obsessed" with music, Shania said she wanted to solely be a song-writer to escape her "crappy life". But destiny in.