Alanis Morissette says she is pansexual on the Handsome podcast

Right · 2Alanis Morissette, the 52-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter, said she is pansexual during a recent episode of the Handsome podcast. 1 2 Right · 3The episode was released on Tuesday 3 November, according to GB News and Breitbart; Fox News also places it on Tuesday. 2 3 4 Right · 2The podcast is hosted by comedians Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster and screenwriter Mae Martin. 1 2

Right · 2The remark came after Feimster said, "I'm sorry for the men that hurt you, but I'm not sorry for the songs that came from it," and asked whether that had made Morissette want to be a lesbian at any point. Morissette answered, "I'm pansexual, so yeah." 1 2 Right · 2Notaro, surprised, asked, "Wait, you're not really pansexual, are you?" Morissette replied, "I am," and Martin said, "Me too!" 1 2 Right · 1GB News also quotes Morissette adding "I get everything" after "I'm pansexual, so yeah." 2

Right · 1According to GB News, Notaro joked that Morissette should have opened the show with the news, and Morissette replied, "I like to leave it for the epilogue. I like to confuse people on the way out." 2 Right · 1GB News explained that pansexuality describes attraction to others regardless of gender identity or sex, and said it differs from bisexuality, in which gender is a factor. 2 Right · 2Morissette has been married to rapper Mario "Souleye" Treadway since 2010, and they have three children. Past relationships include Full House actor Dave Coulier, actor Dash Mihok and Ryan Reynolds, who was engaged to Morissette before they split in 2007. 1 2

Right · 1The Daily Mail says Morissette has spoken openly about past addictions to love and sex, and it quotes an interview with The Sunday Times in June about the 2008 Howard Stern interview on the Reynolds breakup. It adds that Morissette is currently doing a Los Angeles residency, Butterfly with a Machete. 1 Right · 2The two outlets differ on which work Coulier inspired. The Daily Mail says the relationship inspired the album Jagged Little Pill. GB News says he is widely believed to have inspired the hit You Oughta Know, which Morissette has never confirmed. 1 2 Right · 2Fox News and Breitbart link the remark to Morissette's September appearance on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast, where she said she pitched the 2000 Sex and the City storyline in which her character Dawn kisses Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw. She called the kiss "easy" and "buoyant" and said, "It was very pleasant." 4 3

Right · 1Fox News also quotes a 2008 interview with The Advocate in which Morissette called it "a beautiful rite of passage for everyone to play with their sexuality at some point." 4 Right · 1Breitbart, which says she "now claims" to be pansexual, notes her marriage to Treadway and recounts her earlier statements about sexual assault and harassment in the music industry, including her 2021 account of being assaulted at 15. 3