“I get everything”: Alanis Morissette comes out as pansexual!
The 'Ironic' singer is one of us!
Photography by Shelby Duncan
Alanis Morissette has opened up about her sexuality, revealing that she identifies as pansexual.
The singer-songwriter, whose Jagged Little Pill (1995) is one of the best-selling albums of all time, recently appeared on the Handsome podcast, hosted by queer comedians Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin.
Towards the end of the episode, Feimster asked Morissette whether her negative experiences with men had ever made her “want to be a lesbian”, to which she responded: “I’m pansexual, so yeah. I get everything.”
When Notaro asked, “Wait, you’re not really pansexual are you?” Morissette replied: “I am.” Notaro then joked that the singer should have opened the podcast with this revelation, prompting Morissette to say: “You know, I like to leave it for the epilogue. I like to confuse people on the way out. Is it confusing?”
Pansexuality is defined as sexual and/or romantic attraction to people of all genders, with the prefix “pan-” meaning “all”. Although both identities fall under the multisexual umbrella, pansexuality is often confused with bisexuality. While pansexuality refers to attraction to all genders, bisexuality describes attraction to more than one gender, but not necessarily all.
Although this is the first time Morissette has explicitly defined her sexuality, she has spoken about having queer experiences in the past. In 2008, she told The Advocate that sexual exploration is a “beautiful rite of passage,” adding: “I did exactly that. And it was great!”
The ‘You Oughta Know’ and ‘Ironic’ icon also gushed about her LGBTQIA+ following, saying she “felt love” from the community “since I was really young because all my friends were gay”.
More recently, Morissette reflected on her guest appearance in the third season of Sex and the City, in which she played Dawn, a friend of Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) bisexual boyfriend, Sean (Eddie Cahill). In a now-iconic scene, Dawn and Carrie share a kiss during a game of spin the bottle.
Appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Morissette revealed that she had reached out to HBO to suggest the kiss. “I said, ‘Might it be a nice time for Carrie to experience a lesbian moment?’ and they said, ‘Why yes, we were thinking the same thing.’”
Morissette recently released her 11th studio album and first holiday collection, Good Weather for Immaculate Conception, featuring Brandi Carlile, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Amethyst Kiah, Joy Oladokun and Trans Voices Choir.
