Do we like Alanis Morissette?
Our score: 8 out of 10. No harmful words or company turned up, she has put her platform behind women and mental health, and the newest drama is a lawsuit she filed, which is untested.
Alanis Morissette went from a Canadian teen act to the voice of a generation's anger with Jagged Little Pill in 1995. She is still touring and still in the news, and in January 2026 she was named in the Songwriters Hall of Fame class alongside Taylor Swift and the Kiss songwriters.
The fresh stoush is a lawsuit. Billboard Canada reports she sued her former tour manager Keren Urinov in 2026, calling it a “calculated blackmail campaign”. The complaint alleges Urinov threatened to tell British authorities that drugs found in a bag were Morissette's, unless she was given a 15-year contract.
Those are Morissette's allegations, and nothing has been tested in court. Urinov's law firm had not responded to Billboard when it ran the story, and Billboard reports that Urinov filed her own claim against Morissette in London in August. We'll call this one too early to judge, but she is the one bringing the case.
On the harm test, there's nothing nasty to report. In a 2025 interview with the Guardian, republished by the Irish Times, she criticised the return of “size zero” culture and said of feminism that “We dropped the ball.” We found no anti-LGBTQ+, anti-vax or climate-denial words from her, and no dodgy company.
She has had some public disputes. In 2022 she said an “overarching anti-woman sentiment” was why she pulled out of a Rock Hall duet with Olivia Rodrigo, though sources told Variety she had struggled with the song, which her side disputed. In 2021 she said the HBO documentary Jagged had “implications and facts that are simply not true.”
On the money side, her former business manager was sentenced in 2017 to six years in prison for embezzling more than $7 million from her and other clients, with nearly $5 million taken from her. She was the one wronged there, and it says nothing against her character.