Alanis Morissette was held up at gunpoint whereas engaged on ‘Jagged Little Pill’.
The 46-year-old singer/songwriter revealed the terrifying incident occurred when she was writing the 1995 album and she or he virtually misplaced all the work she had finished for the file.
Speaking to Alex Jones and Gethin Jones on ‘The One Show’, she mentioned: ”I used to be writing for the file and I had my backpack stuffed with my lyrics and music and a few cassette tapes.
”All of a sudden I used to be going to get trainers, I drove house to show round and I used to be being held up at gunpoint they usually needed all my issues.
”I knew I used to be going to offer them something initially. Second of all, I had my backpack with the entire of my Jagged Little Pill contents in it.
”I gave them my pockets and my purse they usually mentioned go lie down. So I lay down with my backpack and thought they will take that on the way in which out however they did not. It was so fortuitous and I’m comfortable to nonetheless be right here.”
And she additionally revealed that her traditional hit ‘Ironic’ was virtually by no means launched.
Alanis – whose newest album ‘Such Pretty Forks within the Road’ was launched final week – defined: ”I wrote ‘Ironic’ with Glen Ballard very early within the writing of the file and it was not autobiographical, it was simply us attempting to be entertain one another and we have been being actually unfastened and fast with every little thing.
”When it got here to determine on what was on the file, I did not need ‘Ironic’ on the file however these round me whom I trusted actually beloved the tune so it wound up being on the file however it was an in depth name.”
