Shania Twain recalls being airlifted to hospital after contracting Covid pneumonia

Shania Twain shared her terrifying experience with covid pneumonia, which got so bad that she had to be airlifted to a hospital for treatment.

The queen of country pop, 57, revealed that after falling ill during the height of the pandemic, she was struggling to breathe, at which point her husband, Frédéric Thiébaud, 53, arranged for an airlift from their home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

“It was progressively worse. My vital signs were getting worse… and I had to evacuate air eventually,” said the star, who recently opened up about the child sexual abuse she experienced. Mirror in a new interview.

Hitmaker That Don’t Impress Me Much described the helicopter ride as “going to another planet”.

‘It was like science fiction, I felt like I was going to another planet or something. Everything happened in slow motion,” she said.

Twain revealed that her husband was “freaked out” and desperately trying to find her a free hospital bed, which was very limited during that time.

Terrifying: The queen of country pop, 57, revealed that after falling ill during the height of the pandemic, she was having trouble breathing and had to be airlifted to a hospital; pictured 2022

“I would spend hours and hours every day on the phone, trying to coordinate an air evacuation, trying to line up a bed since there wasn’t one, checking my vital signs. It was a real nightmare for him,” she explained.

After arriving at the hospital, the singer was placed in isolation and later treated with plasma therapy.

“It took several days to start developing antibodies, so it was a very dangerous and scary time,” she recalled, adding: “I made it and I’m so grateful.”

Health problems: ‘It was getting progressively worse. My vital signs were getting worse… and in the end I had to be evacuated by air,’ she shared, adding that her husband Frédéric Thiébaud, 53, arranged air transport from her home on Lake de Geneva, Switzerland; pictured 2020

A nightmare: ‘I was spending hours and hours every day on the phone, trying to coordinate an air evacuation, trying to get a bed lined up since there wasn’t one, checking my vital signs. It was a real nightmare for him,’ she explained; pictured 2021

She also expressed her gratitude for her husband: ‘I thought, ‘Wow, if I was living alone in a more isolated setting, I don’t know what would have happened.’ My heart goes out to people who don’t have that support to help them get the right care.’

The health battle had such an impact on Twain that she even wrote a song titled Inhale/Exhale Air about it, for her upcoming sixth studio album, Queen Of Me, due out on February 3.

“It’s a song of gratitude and appreciation,” she says. “It inspired me that I still had air in my lungs.”

Better now: After arriving at the hospital, the singer was placed in isolation and treated with plasma therapy. Her upcoming sixth studio album, Queen Of Me, will feature a song titled Inhale/Exhale Air about the terrifying health test; pictured 2021