Alanis Morissette announced on a podcast that she now identifies as pansexual, even though she has been married to her husband, Mario “Souleye” Treadway, since 2010 and the couple have three children together.
The 52-year-old “Ironic” singer made the statement on the Nov. 3 episode of the Handsome podcast, hosted by comedian Tig Notaro alongside Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin.
Feimster brought up the topic by asking whether men had driven Morissette toward women. “I’m sorry for the men that hurt you, but I’m not sorry for the songs that came from it. Did it make you want to be a lesbian at any point?” Feimster asked.
“I’m pansexual, so, yeah,” Morissette answered.
Notaro seemed caught off guard by the admission. “Wait, you’re not really pansexual, are you?” she said.
The claim lines up with Morissette’s past comments about a 2000 kiss with Sarah Jessica Parker. On the Call Her Daddy podcast, Morissette said the kiss was her idea. “I reached out to them and 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,'” she said. She added that the kiss was “very pleasant,” calling it “easy” and “buoyant.”
A Pattern of Statements About Men and the Industry
Morissette has repeatedly made sweeping claims about abuse by men in the music business. In 2020 she said, “Almost every woman in the music industry has been assaulted, harassed, raped. It’s ubiquitous — more in music, even, than film. What, sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll? By definition, it’s crass, sweaty, and aggressive. But it’s only a matter of time before it has its own explosion of stories.” She said she wanted to “take away the normalization” of such abuse and dismantle “the structures that allow it.”
In 2021, Morissette said she herself had been raped by “multiple men” in the entertainment industry, describing sexual encounters with several men when she was 15 and starting out in music in Canada. “I’m going to need some help because I never talk about this,” she said at the time. “It took me 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.’ Now I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, they’re all pedophiles. It’s all statutory rape.'”
