Avril Lavigne is increasingly insisting that she's not actually a Kagemusha.
The rocker opened up about the crazy conspiracy theories that have dogged her for years in an interview on Alex Cooper's “Call Her Daddy” podcast on Wednesday.
For those not familiar with the rumor, there is a minority of people who believe Lavigne died in the early 2000s and was replaced by a shadowy named Melissa who publicly assumed Lavigne's identity.
“It's just funny to me,” the singer said on “Call Me Daddy.” “On the one hand, everyone's like, 'Oh my gosh, you look exactly the same.' You haven't aged a day. But other people are like, 'Look, I'm not me. There's a conspiracy theory.''
“It's not that bad, to be honest. It could be worse, right?” Lavigne continued. “I feel like I got a good thing. I don't think it's a negative thing or anything, I don't think it's creepy…I mean, obviously, I'm me and it's so ridiculous.”
The “I'm With You” singer has revisited this theory over the years, always finding humor in its strangeness.
“Some people think I'm not the real me, which is so weird,” she said in an interview on an Australian radio show. “Kyle & Jackie O. Show” “Why would they think that?”
Lavigne also discussed the conspiracy in a 2022 profile in Galois magazine, calling it “completely meaningless.”
“What people bring up, and it's been brought up to me for years, is there's some conspiracy theory that I'm not me or something? Am I a clone? “I don't know how that happened, it's just the weirdest rumor,” she said.
“It's very strange that it's lasted this long,” she added. “It's so weird, it makes me laugh!”
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