The Swiss secretary accused of carrying on a clandestine affair with Shania Twain’s producer husband, Robert “Mutt” Lange, has issued a statement denying she had anything to do with the dissolution of the couple’s fourteen year marriage.

“I know what you’re ringing to ask me about. But, when marriages break up they break up for all sorts of complicated reasons, it’s never just one reason. And those reasons should be kept private,” Marie-Anne Thiébaud said in a telephone interview on Thursday.

“If you’re looking for a person that broke up a marriage then you have the wrong person. I’m not that person.”

Marie-Anne says she is retired and no longer works for Mutt and Shania.