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Alanis Morissette spoke out against the new HBO documentary about his life titled “Jagged.”
A few hours before the production premiered Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, Morissette criticized the film about her life as “reducing” and “salacious.”
Morissette starred in the film, directed by Alison Klayman, sitting for long interviews. But in a statement issued by his publicist, the Canadian musician said he would not support the film, which is named after his groundbreaking 1995 album, “Jagged Little Pill.”
“I agreed to participate in a play about the 25th anniversary celebration of‘ Jagged Little Pill ’and I was interviewed during a very vulnerable time (while I was in the middle of my third postpartum depression during closure),” Morissette wrote. “They let me wrap myself in a false sense of security and their sharp agenda became apparent immediately upon seeing the first cut of the film. That’s when I learned that our views were in fact painfully divergent. That wasn’t the story I agreed to tell. “
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A few hours before the HBO documentary “Jagged” premiered Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, Alanis Morissette criticized the film about her life as “reducing” and “wild”. (Greg Allen / Invision)
Morissette did not specify her issues with “Jagged,” which will premiere on November 19 on HBO. But her most sensitive material includes Morissette talking about sexual encounters at the age of fifteen she calls legal rape. The Washington Post previously reported on this section of the film.
“It took me years in therapy to even admit that there had been any kind of victimization on my part,” Morissette says in the film. “I would always say I was consenting, and then I would remember,‘ Hey, you were 15, you’re not consenting at 15. ”Now I say to myself,‘ Yeah, they’re all pedophiles. It’s all a legal violation. “
Canada’s consent age is 16 since 2008. A person under the age of 18 cannot consent if sexual activity is with a person with authority over them. Young people aged 14 or 15 can consent to non-exploitative sexual activity when the age difference does not exceed five years. Prior to 2008, the age of consent was 14 years. Morissette does not detail any details with whom the encounters were.
Klayman’s representatives did not immediately return comments on Tuesday. In an interview with Deadline Hollywood released Tuesday, Klayman, whose films include “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” and Steve Bannon’s documentary “Brink,” lamented that Morissette was not there for the premiere.
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“I think it’s very hard to see a film made about yourself,” Klayman said. “I think she’s incredibly brave and the reaction when she saw it was that it was a real thing: she felt all the work, all the nuance that was there. And again, she devoted a lot of her time and a lot of effort to it. to do that and I think the film really speaks for itself. “
Morissette is currently on tour and will perform Wednesday in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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“I decided not to attend any events around this film for two reasons: one is that I’m touring right now. The other is that, unlike many unauthorized” stories “and biographies that there have been over the years, this includes implications and facts that are simply not true, ”Morissette said. “While there is beauty and some precision in this / my story, of course, ultimately, I will not support another person’s reductive take on a story that is too nuanced for them to ever grasp or tell.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.