Alanis Morissette uses Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to help manage her menopause symptoms.
The 52-year-old singer said the menopause feels like a “truth serum”, and she has turned to HRT, which replaces oestrogen and progesterone that the body produces less of during that stage of life, as it helps to relieve symptoms, including hot flushes, brain fog, and mood swings.
Alanis told The Sunday Times Style Magazine, “The procreative imperative keeps me ooey-gooey, then when that goes away I’m in my authentic truth.”
“The other day someone said, ‘Why would you start HRT, because when you go off it in your seventies it’s like you’re experiencing it [menopause] for the first time?’” she recalled, adding, “And my question was, who’s going off it?!”
The Ironic hitmaker relocated from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay Area in 2018 because she struggled with the City of Angels’ pressure on women to appear young.
Alanis, who has since moved back to Los Angeles, said, “I really had to look at this. There was grief of going from the playful maiden into the mom – it’s an archetypal head spinner. I’m embracing the older woman with some ‘I know too much’ humour.”
“I’m all about women doing what the f** they need to feel right. I have zero judgment. Personally, I do the ouchy facials because, you know, I like collagen, a*******.”
Last June, the seven-time Grammy winner, who has sons Ever, 14, and Winter, six, and daughter Onyx, nine, with her 46-year-old husband, hip-hop artist Souleye, real name Mario Treadway, admitted she “would not be alive” without therapy.
The Thank U performer said she still “struggles” with suicidal thoughts and believes much of her depressive nature comes from being “highly sensitive.”
After making her admission about being saved by therapy, she was asked if she was suicidal and told The Guardian newspaper, “All the time. I still struggle with it. I have an anxious, depressive tendency. Those who are sensitive are much more susceptible to their environmental information.”
“If you put a highly sensitive person in an environment where they’re brow-beaten or reduced, they’ll basically want to kill themselves. It’s the worst. If you put a highly sensitive person in an environment where they’re supported, championed, and listened to, they thrive,” Alanis Morissette explained, comparing environments where people thrive in.
