Alanis Morissette says she’s naturally optimistic – but battled hard times over the last few years when she hit “rock bottom.”
“I took a break over the past two and half years. I was tending to my personal life,” says the singer, who called off her engagement to longtime boyfriend Ryan Reynolds in 2007.
During that time, she says she hit “rock bottom” due to “a personal unraveling of significant relationships in my life.” (Morissette did not comment about Reynolds’s recent engagement to Scarlett Johansson.)
But the singer, 33, worked through the low period by writing songs for her upcoming album, Flavors of Entanglement, due June 10, and discovering more outlets for her emotions. She says that “everything from pounding pillows to sharing with intimate friends,” helped her through the hard time. “The record chronicles the rock bottom finally being hit.”
Still, she’s hopeful about true love she says. “Oh yeah. My nature is always hope filled. It’s more about values matching now. That’s the foundation.” Though she admits she is, “dating someone,” she says she’d rather not reveal who it is – yet.
What the singer will reveal is that she’s planning to tour North America this fall – but first she wants to catch one of the summer’s most anticipated movies: Sex and the City. “I will definitely be going to see that movie,” enthused Morissette, who once had a guest role on the HBO series. “I’m the girl that would torture a few of my guy friends and bring them.”
Only hours after the news broke that Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson had gotten engaged, the Van Wilder star’s former fiancée Alanis Morissette was spotted on a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where eyewitnesses tell OK! the Canadian singer appeared unfazed by the announcement.
“Alanis seemed fine,” one of the pop star’s fellow passengers tells OK!, adding that she “looked beautiful.”
And, judging by the copy of OK! Magazine Alanis was intently reading during the flight, the best way to keep her mind off of her now-engaged ex-beau was to catch up on all the latest in celebrity news in the pages of OK!
Ryan and Alanis had been engaged for almost three years before finally announcing the end of their marriage plans in February of 2007. He began seeing Scarlett shortly after the split.
I don’t have a better picture of her face…she’s like this in every picture. I can’t tell if she’s gained a ton of weight – or if it’s the angle of the camera.
…what the HELL Alanis Morissette was thinking. Maybe she’s so distraught over the loss of her hot boyfriend Ryan Reynolds – that she actually lost her damn mind. I can’t really describe what’s going on in this video. I assume it’s a joke (let’s hope so). You just have to watch it…you won’t regret it, I swear.
Alanis Morissette covering Black Eyed Pea’s “My Humps”.
Ryan Reynolds and Alanis Morissette have called it quits – and this time, it’s official.
Their reps, Dvora Vener and Meredith O’Sullivan, tell PEOPLE in a joint statement, “Ryan Reynolds and Alanis Morissette have mutually decided to end their engagement.
“They remain close friends and continue to have the utmost love and admiration for each other. They ask that their privacy be respected surrounding this personal matter.”
Morissette, 32, and Reynolds, 30, had previously split in June, a source close to the couple said at the time, but within weeks they were seen walking in Vancouver, holding hands in L.A. and, on Oct. 1, kissing in New York City.
The singer and the Smokin’ Aces actor, both Canadian-born, met in 2002 and dated for two years before becoming engaged in 2004.
They never announced a wedding date. “We’re just really enjoying this [engagement] phase,” Morissette told PEOPLE in 2005. Added Reynolds, “We feel like we’re already married.”
