In 1981, when she was seven years old, she began dance lessons. Morissette had a Catholic upbringing. She attended Holy Family Catholic School for elementary school and Immaculata High School for Grades 7 and 8 before completing the rest of her high school at Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa.
She appeared on the children’s television show “You Can’t Do That on Television” for five episodes when she was in elementary school.
In terms of her relationships, Alanis Morissette dated actor and comedian Dave Coulier for a short time in the early 1990s. In a 2008 interview with the Calgary Herald, Coulier claimed to be the ex-boyfriend who inspired Morissette’s song “You Oughta Know.”
Morissette met Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds at Drew Barrymore’s birthday party in 2002, and the couple began dating soon after. They announced their engagement in June 2004. In February 2007, representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced they had mutually decided to end their engagement.
She has stated that her album “Flavors of Entanglement” was created out of her grief after the break-up with Reynolds, saying that it was cathartic.
On May 22, 2010, Morissette married rapper Mario “Souleye” Treadway in a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home. They have a son born in 2010 and a daughter born in 2016.