After a day and a half of live video testimony by a distraught Shania Twain the man charged with stalking her entered a surprise guilty plea in Ontario, Canada on Friday.

Giovanni (John) Palumbo told the court he wanted to plead guilty to one charge of criminal harassment and one charge of breach of recognizance for being within 500 yards of Twain at the Juno Awards last March in Toronto, according to the Vancouver Sun.

“He’s devastated that she’s afraid,” his lawyer Gary Barnes said. “He never intended for her to feel that at all…but he realizes that because of his actions, he had that effect on her and that’s why he pled guilty.”