“Songwriting is an exercise in letting the unconscious out,” she says. She also headed to the studio for the first time in eight years to record her new album. Fans would take my underwear from under my pillow Previously, she delayed dealing with it this time, she sought to expose it as it happened, appearing on TV after the birth to tell viewers it is like “being covered in tar and underwater”. She has endured the condition after every birth. Her youngest child, Winter, was born last August, a brother to her nine-year-old son, Ever, and three-year-old daughter, Onyx, her children with the rapper Souleye, whom she married in 2010.
Most recently she has been dealing with post-partum depression. “At 3pm, I might feel: ‘Wow, this is a huge gift, I’m so overwhelmed with gratitude.’ By 3.15pm, I’m raging. Recovery is a complex, lifelong endeavour, and lockdown has been triggering, says Morissette, who is juggling life at home as a mother of three with promoting her ninth album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road.
