Shania Twain reflects on her 'threatening' battle with Covid pneumonia that ... trends now
Shania Twain has shared her very scary experience with Covid pneumonia, which got so bad that she had to be air-evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
The Queen of Country Pop, 57, detailed her 'threatening' battle with the virus and revealed that it nearly took her life.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she said: 'I’m asthmatic anyway, and then I had a really bad bout with Covid, and it was very threatening,”
'I had to be airvacked by a special team because nobody else would fly me to the hospital, because you can’t just pick up a Covid patient and fly them to a hospital.'
It soon developed into Covid pneumonia, with Shania saying: 'Every day my lungs were filling up with inflammation. Every day.'
Terrifying: Shania Twain has shared her very scary experience with Covid pneumonia, which got so bad that she had to be air-evacuated to a hospital for treatment
Awful: The Queen of Country Pop, 57, detailed her 'threatening' battle with the virus and revealed that it nearly took her life
She added: 'Within 12 days, I was pretty much dying.'
She explained: 'Thankfully, I had plasma therapy, and it worked. On the fourth day, with plasma therapy, I had 0000.1 antibodies. I had no antibodies.'
'I wasn’t fighting it. My antibodies were not building up, and my lungs were getting more and more full of inflammation.'
Shania said she had to wait for the plasma therapy to 'hopefully kick in', not knowing if it would work or not.
Recalling the difficult time, she said: 'That’s the sad thing… I think it was more the staff around me were really, really good.
'They didn’t tell me how many more days of plasma therapy that I could not respond to before I was now then on a respirator. On my way out. You know?'
Thankfully Shania recovered, and went on to meet a minister who reminded her about the important of breathing, which inspired her new music.
She described writing a song about: 'all the things that you can do with air that we take for granted — all the things that you can celebrate, like blowing bubbles and flying balloons and throwing your hands up in the air.'
The song, titled Inhale/Exhale Air, will be on her upcoming sixth studio album, Queen Of Me, which is set to be released on February 3.
'It’s a song of gratitude and appreciation,' she says. 'I was inspired that I still had air in my lungs.'
Shania got sick during the height of the pandemic she was struggling to breathe at which point her husband Frédéric Thiébaud, 53, organized an air lift from their home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
Speaking to The Mirror previously, she said: 'It was progressively getting worse. My vital signs were
