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Alanis Morissette becomes Guardian agony aunt
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 11 January 2016
Alanis Morissette has been hired as the new agony aunt for the Guardian’s Weekend magazine. Her first serving of advice will come in the 16 Jan edition of the supplement.
The musician already has a podcast that touches on relevant subjects to her new role, though with the broader remit of “psychology to art to spirituality to design to health and well-being, to relationships (whether they be romantic or colleagueship or parent with children relationships)”.
As for her qualifications for telling people how to live their lives, she says that this has always been her job in her family: “Parents, brothers, even extended family members, that was the role I took on, because I suppose I had this combination of intuition and empathy. I cut my teeth, basically, listening for a living”.
Morissette takes over the column from Molly Ringwald.
