The singer casually dropped the news on the Handsome podcast
BY ELLA GAUCI, IMAGE VIA YOUTUBE
Sapphic Christmas just came early! Singer Alanis Morissette has come out as pansexual.
Appearing on the Handsome podcast on 3 November, the You Oughta Know singer casually came out when speaking to Fortune Feimster, Tig Notaro and Mae Martin.
When asked if her heartbreaks from men had ever made her “want to be a lesbian”, Alanis replied, “I’m pansexual, so yeah.” She added, “I get everything.”
This isn’t the first time that the singer has spoken about her romantic experiences with women. In a 2008 interview with The Advocate, Alanis spoke about her sexuality. “I think it’s a beautiful rite of passage for everyone to play with their sexuality at some point, so I did exactly that. And it was great!”
Earlier this year, Alanis also spoke about that iconic kiss between herself and Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw on Sex And The City. “I reached out to them, and I said, ‘Might it be a nice time for Carrie to experience a lesbian moment?’” Morissette revealed on an episode of the podcast Call Her Daddy. “And they said, ‘Why yes, we were thinking the same thing!’”
Alanis has been a vocal advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community throughout her career. Talking to The Advocate she said, “I’ve felt love from the gay community since I was really young because all my friends were gay. My first manager was gay, and I used to go to nightclubs with him in New York when I was 14. There’s a passion, a presence, and a curiosity with a lot of gay people that I meet, and that aliveness is such a special quality to me.”
The singer is known as the “Queen of Alt-Rock Angst”. She has won seven Grammys and this year she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been married to rapper Mario “Souleye” Treadway since 2010. The pair have three children.
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