Alanis Morissette overcame “love addiction” after splitting from ex Ryan Reynolds – by having loads of no-strings sex.
Isn’t it ironic… don’t you think?
The singer was determined to beat her lifelong habit of turning dates into relationships after her engagement to Ryan came to a traumatic end in 2006.
And she achieved this by throwing herself into a lifestyle of meaningless sex and throwaway dates.
She said: “No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I’ve been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven’t been celibate. I’ve had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven’t been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.”
Alanis Morissette is taking a road trip as she is set to embark on a big three month tour across the US nd Canada beginning in September. The tour will kick off on September 18 in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Charlottesville Pavilion and will wrap up on November 15 in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Joint. She’s got a lot of tour dates set playing mostly in theaters. October is the most packed month so there are plenty of dates to choose from for anyone who would like to see the Canadian singer perform both her new and old hits.
She has never talked about it before but that’s all changing now. Alanis Morissette became an internet sensation when she decided to do a piano-only version of the Black Eyed Peas’ ‘My Humps’. She even made a parody video for it which has been seen on YouTube by almost 15 million people. When it first hit the net, the singer was hounded about it but she refused to talk about it. In the new issue of The Advocate, Alanis reveals that it all came from a brainstorming session with Guy Sigsworth wherein she said “I wish I could just write a really simple song—a song like ‘My Humps.’” One pregnant pause later and they were recording a piano version of it.
Alanis Morissette attacks ex-boyfriend Ryan Reynolds on her new album. The Canadian singer has revealed various tracks on her upcoming LP ‘Flavors of Entanglement’ were inspired by her then-disintegrating relationship with the ‘Smokin’ Aces’ actor.
She said: “This album was like a life raft. I wanted my own personal story to unfold as it was happening.”
One lyric from track ‘Straightjacket’ is: “I don’t know who you are, talking to me with such f***ing disrespect.” While lines from ‘Underneath’ include: “Look at us break our bonds in this kitchen / Look at us rallying our defences / Look at us waging war in our bedroom.”
Alanis and Ryan dated between 2004 and 2007, and were engaged. Ryan is now set to marry ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ actress Scarlett Johansson. Although she is still hurt by the split, the ‘Ironic’ singer believes the experience has made her a better artist.
She added: “That’s what I keep coming back to. What you’re writing is who you are, what you really want to be doing. That’s all that matters.”
