Alanis Morissette
The singer was molested by several men as a teenager
Alanis Morissette speaks openly about dramatic experiences as a teenager.
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Alanis Morissette reveals in a new documentary that she was raped by several men in her teenage years.
The Canadian-American singer Alanis Morissette (47) tells in the documentary “Jagged” that she was raped by several men when she was 15 years old. As the “Washington Post” reported in advanceThe musician reveals in the film, which will make its debut at the Toronto Film Festival next Tuesday, that it took her years in therapy “to even admit that I was somehow a victim”.
Alanis Morissette does not mention any names
Morissette apparently does not name any perpetrators. “I told a few people about it and it fell on deaf ears,” explains the singer, according to the media report. She kept telling herself that she agreed and then she remembered: “Hey, you were 15, at 15 you can’t agree.” Today she is sure: “These are all pedophiles. This is all rape according to the law.” In the film by documentary filmmaker and journalist Alison Klayma (37, “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”) is about the singer’s career leap in the mid-90s when her album “Jagged Little Pill” was released. Morissette is said to have canceled the premiere party.
It is not the first time that the singer talks about her bad experiences in the past. She told the Los Angeles Times in January 2020 Given the sexual assault on teenagers discussed on the Broadway show Jagged Little Pill, “I’ve had this experience in my past and I’m not afraid to talk about it. I hope this helps remove the stigma that surrounds the.” Telling the truth. ” In April 2020 she stressed in the “Sunday Times”: “Almost every woman in the music industry has been attacked, molested, raped. It’s ubiquitous – even more in music than in film.”
The musician, who has been married to rapper Mario Treadway (41) since May 2010, has a son (Ever Imre, 10), a daughter (Onyx Solace, 5) and son Winter Mercy, who was born in August 2019.