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Alanis Morissette has reflected on her split from Ryan Reynolds, nearly twenty years after they ended their engagement.
The Grammy-winning singer, 52, began dating Ryan, 49, in 2002, and the couple were engaged for three years before calling it quits in 2007.
Ryan began dating Scarlett Johansson just two months later after the split, marrying the actress 18 months later before their divorce in 2011. He then married Blake Lively in 2012.
In 2008 Alanis’ interview with Howard Stern about the breakup went viral as the singer tried to laugh off probing questions about her sex life and admitted she needed therapy five days a week to get over the heartbreak.
Speaking about the difficult interview, Alanis says now: ‘It felt like the ongoing normalisation of me being invisible,’ adding that she would react very differently to such intrusive questions now.
‘I have a million questions I could ask back that would be equally inappropriate. It just became normalised to hurt women every day, call her a bi**h, tell her she’s a s**t,’ she told The Sunday Times Style.
Alanis Morissette has reflected on her split from Ryan Reynolds , nearly twenty years after they ended their engagement; pictured in 2004
In the viral TikTok of her 2008 Howard Stern Show interview, Alanis opened up about how the breakup influenced her album at the time, admitting to Stern that she was initially ‘not ok’ with the split.
When Stern asked her about previously revealing she’d gone to therapy five times a week after the breakup, Alanis responded: ‘Therapy’s not about the guy… It’s about me. It’s not about the guy.’
After Stern inquired about Reynolds’ quick rebound with Scarlett Johansson, Alanis paused and remained silent for a moment. Stern then pressed, ‘So what? He comes home and announces he’s with another broad?’ Alanis emphatically replied, ‘No.’
When asked if she saw the split coming, Alanis nodded in agreement and admitted she had prepared herself for the breakup.
Stern then asked, ‘Do you think he’s the kind of guy who moves on right away when he falls in love with the next person?’ to which Alanis replied, ‘I can’t speak for him, I have no idea.’
In 2010 Alanis married the rapper Souleye (real name Mario Treadway) and they have two sons and a daughter, aged between six and fifteen.
‘There are just so many qualities in him that were slam-dunky,’ she told the Times about her husband.
‘If I would talk about something on a date, typically the person would look at me quizzically like I was strange. It was the complete opposite with Souleye. He had zero desire to clip my wings.’
Ryan began dating Scarlett Johansson just two months later after the split, marrying the actress 18 months later (pictured in 2010)
In 2010 Alanis married the rapper Souleye (real name Mario Treadway) and they have two sons and a daughter, aged between six and fifteen
Looking back at both her work and relationships, the singer, who marked the 30th anniversary of her seminal album Jagged Little Pill last year, explained how she has been a lifelong highly sensitive person (HSP) and empath.
‘I tried myriad ways to regulate, whether that was partying or working. I was a huge work addict, still in recovery. A lot of love addiction, which also had some sex addiction. And I see this with empaths,’ she said.
‘We aren’t given a handbook about how to be responsible for this temperament. All I know is that I made absolutely no sense to most people for a very long time and it was lonely and painful but I persevered. Now I feel myself making more sense to people — there’s a curiosity about what I’m talking about versus an immediate shutdown.’
