UPDATED 9/14, 1:58 p.m. ET: Alanis Morissette has released a statement on the upcoming Jagged documentary, sharing that it “includes implications and facts that are simply not true.”
“I agreed to participate in a piece about the celebration of Jagged Little Pill’s 25th anniversary, and was interviewed during a very vulnerable time (while in the midst of my third postpartum depression during lockdown),” the musician said in a statement shared by her rep. “I was lulled into a false sense of security and their salacious agenda became apparent immediately upon my seeing the first cut of the film. This is when I knew our visions were in fact painfully diverged.”
Morissette added that the end result of the film was “not the story” she agreed to tell.
“I sit here now experiencing the full impact of having trusted someone who did not warrant being trusted,” she shared. “I have chosen not to attend any event around this movie for two reasons: one is that I am on tour right now. The other is that, not unlike many ‘stories’ and unauthorized biographies out there over the years, this one includes implications and facts that are simply not true. while there is beauty and some elements of accuracy in this/my story to be sure—I ultimately won’t be supporting someone else’s reductive take on a story much too nuanced for them to ever grasp or tell.”
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In her new HBO documentary Jagged, music superstar Alanis Morissette says she was raped when she was 15 years old, the Washington Post reports.
In the film, which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Morissette reportedly speaks on multiple alleged instances of rape during her teenage years, sharing that it took her “years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part.”
“I would always say I was consenting, and then I’d be reminded like ‘Hey, you were 15, you’re not consenting at 15’,” The Post reports her saying. “Now I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, they’re all pedophiles. It’s all statutory rape’.”
Morissette also reveals that she told “a few people” about the allegations but that “it kind of fell on deaf ears,” and she reportedly did not reveal the alleged abusers name in the documentary.
“You know a lot of people say, ‘Why did that woman wait 30 years? And I’m like fuck off,” she shared. “They don’t wait 30 years. No one was listening or their livelihood was threatened or their family was threatened. The whole ‘why do women wait’ thing? Women don’t wait. Our culture doesn’t listen.”
The film, which is directed by Alison Klayman and will follow the singer’s career, will be available on HBO following its premiere.
