Alanis Morissette opened up to the Los Angeles Times about how she hit “rock bottom” following her painful split from Ryan Reynolds in 2006. “I think it’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” the Grammy winner told the publication. Referring to her past heartbreaks, she said, “It’s having had too many of them. And I was a full-blown love addict, so it was like, ‘I can’t keep doing this, my body can’t take it.'” Morissette explained that, while breakups are hard for everyone, it can be crippling for someone like her who is a “love addict.” “I’ve been on a constant journey toward finally surrendering and hitting the rock bottom that I’ve been avoiding my whole life,” she said. “So, this was a huge, critical juncture for me. Everything broke, and it was an amazing and horrifying time.”
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While it’s unclear exactly what went wrong between her and Reynolds, Morissette has openly admitted that her album “Flavors of Entanglement,” which she released in 2008, was largely inspired by their much-publicized split. “It was cathartic,” the singer told Access Hollywood about creating the album. She confirmed that one of the more personal songs in the record, “Torch,” is in fact about her grief from the breakup. Part of the song’s lyrics goes, “I miss your warmth and the thought of us bringing up our kids / And the part of you that walks with your stick-tied handkerchief / These are things that I miss.”
