We're just normal, real people. I don't know what that is, exactly, but it's not us. Shania has always placed a high value on the institutions of home and family which is all the more vividly understandable considering that she lost her parents in a 1987 highway accident. In an instant, she realized how fragile a family can truly be. Yes, your whole life can be turned upside down.
Life is short.
It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania's sense of family sanctity was jarred again in 1996 when an Ontario newspaper broke a story that revealed a startling fact about her biography. It was her adoptive father who was killed in the car crash. It's very bizarre to me that it was ever perceived that way. And it was quite upsetting to me that people would actually think I was deliberately concealing something.