Barenaked Ladies, known for its quirky, humor-laden, alternative rock songs like “Brian Wilson,” “One Week,” and “Pinch Me,” formed in Toronto in the late ’80s. Founding member Steven Page left the band in 2008, following a period of creative unhappiness and a drug-related arrest. Before his departure, Page participated in a Barenaked Ladies cruise, where it became public knowledge that Page and Carolyn Ricketts, his wife and mother of their three children, split up and initiated a divorce in 2007. Page then headed into a relationship with a woman called Christine Benedicto, whom the rock musician met on the then-popular social media channel MySpace, and who was arrested alongside Page on the drug charge.
Benedicto, who also uses the name Christine Munn, wrote on her blog, Oh You Guys!, that she and Page had first connected as strangers, online, in December 2006, while he was still married and she was working in a newspaper advertising department. “This amazing thing happened. I met Steven Page. One of my favorite musicians. A musician I had loved for nine years. Loved in the way that anyone loves any musician that makes them feel something or think about something,” she wrote. Page and Munn married in July 2011.
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