Alanis Morissette has entered the documentary about his milestone Small toothed pill album to be released Tuesday night at the Toronto Film Festival.
During a brief break on her Garbage and Cat Power tour, Canadian Morissette shed more light on her absence from Roy Thomson Hall’s current debut of the HBO documentary directed by Alison Klayman. Sent to Deadline after my colleague Matthew Carey’s interview Monday with a rather oblique Klayman at the Canadian festival, Morissette now accuses the film of having a “sharp agenda” and “includes implications and facts that are simply not true.”
Read Morissette’s full statement here:
“I agreed to take part in a play about the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the little toothpaste and I was interviewed for a very vulnerable time (while I was in the middle of my third postpartum depression during closure). He dropped me into a false sense of security and his sharp schedule 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 was not the story I agreed to tell. I sit here now with the maximum impact of having trusted someone who did not justify trust. 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 over the years, this one includes implications and facts that are simply not true. although there is beauty and some elements of accuracy in this / my story, of course, ultimately, I will not support the reductive adoption of another person in a story too nuanced for it to ever be understood or told. ” .
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HBO did not immediately respond to Deadline’s request for comment on Morissette’s statements.
“It’s very difficult to see a film made about yourself and I think it’s incredibly brave and his reaction when he saw it was that it was a real thing: you could feel all the work, all the nuance that was there,” Klayman she herself said on Monday Morissette’s reaction to the film after a private screening.
Among the aspects of the documentary, Morissette claims on camera that she was raped by five different men when she was 15, as Washington Post was first reported last week. Known for her blunt lyrics as an adult, Morissette was a TV and pop star in the Great White of the North as a teenager.
The age of consent in Canada was reportedly 14, when Morissette, 47, was now a teenager. They are now 16.
However, Canadian law clearly states that the age of consent may be higher “when there is a relationship of trust, authority, or dependence,” circumstances that Morissette firmly implies were part of his early industrial experiences.
Off the road since Sept. 12, Morissette’s 25th anniversary tour with the initial multi-platinum release Small toothed pill will resume Wednesday in Cincinnati after a previous stop in Michigan. Both cities are less than a couple of hours from Toronto, if Morissette had decided to attend the gala Toothed projection.
The Toronto Film Festival runs through Sept. 18.