Alanis Morissette Just Came Out as Pansexual — ‘So, Yeah’
Alanis Morissette has come out as pansexual — and she did it in the most matter-of-fact, joyful way possible.
The 52-year-old singer-songwriter shared the news on a recent episode of the Handsome podcast, hosted by Fortune Feimster, Tig Notaro and Mae Martin. When Feimster asked Morissette whether she had ever considered being a lesbian, Morissette nodded and replied, “I’m pansexual, so, yeah.”
She followed it up with a laugh — “I get everything” — and when a stunned Notaro asked, “Wait. You’re not really pansexual are you?” Morissette confirmed, in a more serious tone: “I am.”
It was a warm, celebratory moment, and a fitting one for an artist whose music has helped a generation say the quiet parts out loud. For millennials who grew up on Jagged Little Pill, Morissette has always been the voice of radical honesty — and this was no different.
The news comes at a busy moment for Morissette. Her first Christmas album, Good Weather for Immaculate Conception, dropped on November 6, and her “Butterfly With a Machete” residency at YouTube Theater runs November 10–11.
Read more about the album here: Alanis Morissette Just Dropped Her First Christmas Album — With Brandi Carlile, Steve Martin and Martin Short
Photo: Alanis Morissette performing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on May 19, 2014. Photo by Justin Higuchi, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).
Source: Consequence, November 8, 10:31 AM ET.
