The Alanis Morissette Song You Never Knew Was About Ryan Reynolds

Publish date: 2024-05-06

Alanis Morissette and Ryan Reynolds began dating in 2002 and actually got engaged in 2004, according to PopSugar. But by 2008, the couple was done-zo. That year, Morissette released her album "Flavors of Entanglement" which contained the song, "Torch" – a long, dramatic, Gregorian-esque ballad. "I miss your smell and your style and your pure abiding way / Miss your approach to life and your body in my bed," she sings, clearly longing for a lover lost. This time, however, Morissette was forthcoming about the fact that the whole album was inspired by her breakup with Reynolds. 

"It was cathartic," she told Access Hollywood in 2008. Regarding "Torch," Morissette added, "Yeah, it's really about my grief." She continued, "I think the most painful, sort of suffering-oriented moments in my life [are] when I'm resisting something ... If I just say, 'It's true. I'm unbelievably insecure, really broken, devastated,' then I can move through it, toward the next place. But if I keep resisting it, I'll stay there forever."

So that's one mystery solved!

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