Shania Twain Reveals Near-Death Experience During COVID-19 Battle

"I was pretty much dying," the singer said of her bout with the coronavirus.

Shania Twain is sharing the details of her terrifying bout with COVID-19, which she says brought her dangerously close to death.

The 57-year-old country-pop songstress opened up about the experience in a recent interview with Apple Music 1, revealing that her battle with the illness was "very bad," especially since she already deals with asthma.

"I'm asthmatic anyway, and then I had a really bad bout with COVID, and it was very threatening," she told host Zane Lowe. "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."

The illness ended up developing into COVID pneumonia, a serious and potentially fatal illness. "Every day my lungs were filling up with inflammation. Every day. Within 12 days, I was pretty much dying."

Twain continued, "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."

The "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" singer then had to wait for the plasma therapy, which is not always effective, to "hopefully kick in," though she was unaware of what the alternative would be if it didn't work.

"That's the sad thing...I think it was more the staff around me were 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?" she recounted.

Twain said she was "halfway into what would've been considered my maximum treatment. They didn't say that, which was great."

Fortunately, Twain was able to recover after treatment, and the near-death situation even ended up inspiring some ideas for new music.

After her recovery, she had a conversation with a minister who reminded her how lucky she is to be breathing fresh air.

"He said, 'What are you gonna do with that,'" she recalled. Shortly after, she wrote a song about "all the things 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."

While new music from the superstar is certainly exciting, we're all just happy that she's doing better and back in good health!