It's a really cool website that posts anecdotes about celebrities, and I found some really interesting ones on Avril.
About getting a letter from "fans" on the plane:
While flying in first class one day, Avril Lavigne was approached by a flight attendant. "There are some guys in the back bugging me about you," she explained, handing her a note from some fellow passengers:
"I love you soooooo much!" it read. "Kiss Kiss..."
Lavigne later learned that the flight attendant had prompted the note by telling the guys that she was on the plane. "Avril Lavigne's up in the front!" she had told them. How did Lavigne find out? The guys in the back... were Avril's bandmates!
[Sources: "Exposed" (MuchMusic)]
Who wants to bet it was Evan who sent that? XD
[Trivia: After hearing that the aluminum in antiperspirant might cause breast cancer, Lavigne stopped wearing it, choosing instead to constantly sniff her armpits and spritz herself with perfume.]
[Sources: Rolling Stone, Mar 20, 2003, p. 40]
I found that funny just cause it's cute...and disgusting. I wonder if she knows alcohol might cause breast cancer too.
About stripping when Hey Ya comes on
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Avril Lavigne was once asked to name her favorite song. "'Hey Ya' [by Outkast]," she replied. "I have to be careful to keep my clothes on when that song comes on!"
[Some time later, Avril was spotted at the New York bar Lit pulling down Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley's underwear.]
[Sources: Rolling Stone, June 24, 2004, p. 52]
Woohoo, I know the name of the bar where she pantsed Deryck.
That time she and Evan mooned people from a Ferris Wheel...so mature.
While interviewing Avril Lavigne in 2003, Rolling Stone's Jenny Eliscu caught a glimpse of a small town girl gone wild. "In Tokyo, during a drive to TV Asahi, a Japanese channel she's performing on, Lavigne points out the window at a gigantic Ferris wheel that rises above the skyline. Last time she was here, she says, she and her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, dropped trou on the ride and mooned the people in the car behind them."
[Sources: Rolling Stone, Mar 20, 2003, p. 40]
About how she wrote part of He Wasn't:
From an early age, Avril Lavigne heard songs in her dreams. "I wake up in the middle of the night and I'll call my cell phone and record something," she said. "It's so weird. I'm like, 'F---! I should record that.' I have a song called 'He Wasn't,' and I came up with the bridge and wrote the words [that way]."
[Sources: Rolling Stone, June 24, 2004, p. 52]
I knew that first part, but I didn't know that was how she wrote He Wasn't...
How Peter Zizzo found her:
[Things took off for Lavigne after a producer Peter Zizzo saw a home video of her singing karaoke. "She was wearing these fuzzy bunny slippers, and she had a bandanna around her head," Zizzo recalled. "I called back and said, 'Get her to New York.'"]
Avril in bunny slippers...
Snippet about Avril getting kicked out of a bowling alley in Napanee:
[Lavigne was once given the boot for skateboarding in the town's bowling alley (Loyalist Lanes).]
Tiny trivia piece I didn't know:
[Trivia: Avril Lavigne and Marilyn Manson once painted one another's nails.]
Matt Brann talking about Avril:
["The first night we hung out, she took us to a bar," drummer Matt Brann recalled. "Within five minutes she's like, 'We're gonna do body shots. Pour salt on my neck and then lick it.' We were doing tequila, tequila, tequila right away. I was like, 'This girl is insane. This is going to be like Motley Crue.'"]
And finally, about how many times she puked in 2002...
During an interview in the fall of 2002, Avril Lavigne was asked how many times she had vomited that year. "Not very many, really," she replied. "Maybe 10 or 20 times."
[Sources: Blender, November 2002]
Yes, Avril, it is a major accomplishment to only binge drink once every two to three weeks.
I was interested to read this article but it wasn't on the Blender website...
Anyway, anecdotage.com has tons of interesting stuff if you search for Avril Lavigne on there.
Just thought I'd post some of these interesting snippets. Okay...a lot of them.
Sorry if none of this is news to you guys...