Alanis Morissette Calls Out Ben Affleck at Los Angeles Finale Over Past Sexuality Remark, Then Plays His 'Dogma' Death Scene
Canadian singer Alanis Morissette closed her Los Angeles residency Butterfly with a Machete: A Rock Traumedy on November 11 at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. According to USA Today, while listing the harsh judgments she has faced over the years, she told the audience: "I've even had a guy ask me why I didn't lead with my sexuality." She then named the man: "Thank you, Ben Affleck." Affleck was her co-star in the 1999 film Dogma.
According to TheWrap, the show then played a clip from Dogma. Morissette played God in the film, and Affleck played the fallen angel Bartleby; in the scene, her character speaks and Bartleby's head explodes. Morissette did not say when or where Affleck allegedly made the remark.
According to USA Today, the judgments she listed covered her songs, her body, how she looks, how she thinks, how she feels, her value system, her weight, how she lives, her approach to parenting and her approach to education. She also recalled once calling actor Johnny Depp when she was looking for a friend, saying his response was, "Why are you calling me?"
The remark came days after she spoke publicly about her sexuality. According to Parade, on the November 3 episode of the Handsome podcast, co-host Fortune Feimster asked whether her experiences with men had ever made her want to become a lesbian, and she replied: "I'm pansexual, so, yeah." Morissette, 52, has been married to musician Mario "Souleye" Treadway since 2010, and they share three children.
USA Today and TheWrap both said they had reached out to representatives for Affleck, 54, who had not publicly responded as of their reports. At the same closing show, Morissette also tripped over a microphone stand and fell while performing "Uninvited," then rolled back to her feet and kept singing.
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Source: USA Today
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Photo: 图：Alanis Morissette本人资料图（2013年在加利福尼亚州 Beverly Hills 的 Saban Theatre 演出，Justin Higuchi摄，CC BY，经Wikimedia Commons；非事发当晚画面），已预裁为精确16:9成品（头部完整留边、双眼睁开）。/ Alanis Morissette in a file photo (performing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California, in 2013, by Justin Higuchi, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons; not the November 11 show), pre-cropped to an exact 16:9 frame with her head fully in frame and eyes open.
