In accordance with The Los Angeles Times, Alanis Morissette has decided to distance himself from the upcoming HBO documentary Toothed (which has had its world premiere today at the Toronto International Film Festival), explaining that the filmmakers “dropped it into a false sense of security” and that her “sharp agenda” became clear when she saw a first cut of the documentary. Morissette says the film was made “at a very vulnerable time” in her life while dealing with postpartum depression and COVID-19 blockade, and contains “implications and facts that are simply not true.” She says there are “beauty and some elements of precision” Toothed, but “ultimately, it will not support the reductive taking of another person in a story too nuanced for them to ever grasp or tell.”
Toothed is directed by Alison Klayman (who did it earlier The Brink, the documentary about Steve Bannon), and while The Times of Los Angeles he doesn’t know what Morissette specifically opposes in the film, he does point it out The Washington Post recently reported that Toothed contains allegations by Morissette about sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager. He Publication the story says Morissette doesn’t go into details, but says it took them “years of therapy” to realize she had been a victim. He also says he tried to tell “some people” in the music industry, but that he “fell on deaf ears” and “it would normally be a stand-up moment, out of the room.” The implication seems to be that, perhaps, Toothed emphasizes that more than 25th anniversary of Small toothed pill, but without a specific comment from Morissette or a rebuttal from Klayman or HBO, it’s impossible to say. Either way, Morissette won’t help promote the documentary and no longer feels like it’s a true reflection of her life or her story.