Shania Twain reunites with Newfoundland fan on stage — 40 years later

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Every once in a while, you meet a friend that you won’t soon forget. For Canadian country singer Shania Twain, that friend happens to be a Newfoundland local she met on tour 40 years ago.

While performing at the Churchill Park Music Festival in St. John’s, N.L., over the weekend, Twain called her friend Gloria to the stage. She told the crowd she met Gloria on her first-ever tour of Eastern Canada when she was 17 years old.

Twain said she and Gloria had “a very quick, sweet friendship” that she hasn’t forgotten. In fact, the singer said she still treasures a polaroid of she and Gloria, taken during their time together in the 1980s.

“She was very kind, and she was a local and she showed me around,” Twain described.

The Man! I Feel Like a Woman singer then invited Gloria to the stage and the pair embraced to the sound of cheering.

Twain, 58, shared a clip of the moment on social media.

I came to Newfoundland & Labrador with my band Flirt some 40 years ago – it was my first ever tour of the East Coast and my first ever time away from home. During that tour I met Gloria, a local girl who took care of me and showed me around and last night, all these years later, we were reunited ❤️ The hospitality and sentiment of Newfies is unmatched – thank you for, once again, showing me such a warm welcome!