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"LeAnn Rimes is speaking out after Shape editor-in-chief Valerie Latona called the singer&amp;apos;s October cover &amp;quot;a terrible mistake.&amp;quot;\r\nPHOTOS: Celebrities caught cheating!\r\nIn an e-mail addressed to readers outraged by the singer&amp;apos;s shocking interview (where Rimes explained why she cheated on ex-husband Dean Sheremet with Eddie Cibrian), Latona explained that &amp;quot;putting her on the cover was not meant to put a husband-stealer on a pedestal, but to show (through her story) how we all are human.&amp;quot;\r\nRimes, blind-sided by the mass e-mail, took to her Twitter account to share her side of the story.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Just so all my fans know, I&amp;apos;m getting to the bottom of this. It&amp;apos;s the first I&amp;apos;ve heard of this,&amp;quot; the 28-year-old singer tweeted Friday. &amp;quot;Shape is throwing me a party next week as a thank you and a congrats for being on their cover for the third time. I find this very contradictory.&amp;quot;\r\nRimes then tweeted an invitation to RSVP for the Shape cocktail reception, taking place Nov. 4 at Trousdale in West Hollywood.\r\nPHOTOS: Remember these shocking adultery scandals?\r\nShape&amp;apos;s editor-in-chief spoke to USA Today Friday, explaining that her words were taken out of context and that &amp;quot;a mere 40 readers out of almost six million&amp;quot; wrote in to complain about Rimes.\r\n&amp;quot;I stand by the fact that LeAnn&amp;apos;s story is compelling -- and her courage and strength in the face of so much adversity is compelling,&amp;quot; Latona said. &amp;quot;I wrote to those women apologizing that our cover choice did not make them happy, as I have done for other cover stars in the past.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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