Today, most people know this. Ryan ReynoldsIs married to Blake Lively. The couple have been married for ten-years and have three children. But did you know that the actor was once engaged? Alanis Morisette?
They Were Engaged Between 2004 and 2007
The Canadian stars met in 2002 at Drew Barrymore’s birthday party. They began dating and fell in love quickly. “We have the perfect combination of compatibility and incompatibility that makes the relationship very passionate,” The singer related the story. PeopleThe time. “It’s perfect. I think it’s about stretching each other.”
The couple got married in 2004 and continue to love each other. “He’s just such a supportive creature. I feel so loved by him, in a trampoline kind of way. He’s always very happy for me,” Morissette said of her then-fiancé.
Reynolds was equally kind, saying, “I love her music…“We just want to be in the same room as much as possible.”The relationship ended in 2007 following a split and reconciliation.
Why did they break up?
According to their reps, “Ryan Reynolds and Alanis Morissette have mutually decided to end their engagement. They remain close friends and continue to have the utmost love and admiration for each other. They ask that their privacy be respected surrounding this personal matter.”
While the pair have not spoken out about their split, Morissette spoke vaguely about the reason behind it. ”Public romance? I’m going to be avoiding that in the future,” Morissette told Entertainment WeeklyAfter the split. ”I think the only time I’ll talk about any guy I’m with will be when I’m married with six kids. ‘That guy who’Is it with you all the time? Yeah. He’s my husband.”’
In an interview with Women’s HealthThe singer seemed to be making another statement about Reynolds’ romance, saying: “I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.”
Morissette’s ‘Flavors of Entanglement’(2008) Inspired by Their Breakup
All the heartbreak was worth it for album material. Morissette’s 2008 album, Flavors for EntanglementReynolds’ split is discussed in. “It was cathartic,” Alanis told Access Hollywood. “Someone said very wisely to me the other day that catharsis doesn’t mean healing necessarily, and I thought, ‘Damn! It’s true.’ But catharsis is good to get it out of my system, for me to see with some clarity what’s going on.”
Talking about the song “Torch,”The artist shared. “Yeah, it’s really about my grief. I think the most painful, sort of suffering oriented moments in my life [are] when I’m resisting something… If I just say, ‘It’s true. I’m unbelievably insecure, really broken, devastated,’ then I can move through it, toward the next place. But if I keep resisting it, I’ll stay there forever.”
Morissette shared the story with the media at the same moment. Los Angeles TimesReynolds’ breakup caused Reynolds to hit rock bottom, and eventually she was able to shake off her love for romance.
“I think it’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” Morissette explained. “I was a full-blown love addict, so it was like, ‘I can’t keep doing this, my body can’t take it.’ For someone who is a love addict, [breakups are] debilitating.”
“I’ve been on a constant journey toward finally surrendering and hitting the rock bottom that I’ve been avoiding my whole life,”She continued. “So this was a huge, critical juncture for me,”She continued. “Everything broke, and it was an amazing and horrifying time.”
While the split definitely caused heartbreak for Morissette and Reynolds, both have moved on—Reynolds with Lively, and Morissette with her husband Mario Treadway. Fans of the pair are sad the two couldn’t make it work, but glad both have found happiness in their new relationships.