Breaking down the relationship between stars Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette, who dated within the early '90s.
If you are up in your popular culture, odds are that you recognize of Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette's relationship. The Full House big name and the musician dated within the early '90s ahead of she was a household title, however their time together would turn into the stuff of legend after rumors abound that he was the guy she was once singing about on her "Jagged Little Pill" album.
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With that being mentioned, what are the precise details surrounding the time that Dave and Alanis spent together as a couple? Keep reading for a timeline in their now-famous relationship and what went down between them.
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Dave and Alanis met in 1992, when she was once a pop celebrity in home country in Canada. Specifically, they crossed paths at an all-star hockey game he was taking part in; she used to be there to sing the nationwide anthem.
Before this, Dave had divorced his spouse of 2 years, Jayne Modean, that year.
Despite a large age hole (Alanis used to be born in June 1974; Dave was once born in September 1959), the pair dated for two years ahead of calling it quits. Though the precise reasons stay unknown, she would go on to jot down some lovely scathing breakup anthems, which enthusiasts would go directly to in the end hyperlink to Dave.
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The couple's breakup allegedly spawned the tune city legend to finish all track urban legends. Many fans believed that Alanis wrote the track "You Oughta Know" — which is in large part thought to be considered one of her most renowned and successful tracks — about Dave.
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"You wrote that song about Dave Coulier from Full House?" Howard asked Alanis on his show in 2004.
Alanis stated she would "never confirm or affirm who it's about" prior to admitting it is imaginable she might someday. Meanwhile, Howard's manufacturer Gary Dell'Abate came out to say he heard the rumor from Dave's Full House co-star John Stamos that the tune was certainly about Dave.
"There was no one in the studio when I wrote that song, so no one actually knows," Alanis stated in response.
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While talking with BuzzFeed in 2014, Dave introduced up the rumors surrounding his supposedly inspiring "You Oughta Know."
"I think it's just really funny that's it's become this urban legend, so many years after the fact," he stated at the time. "I dated Alanis in 1992. You know, it's just funny to be the supposed subject of that song. First of all, the guy in that song is a real a-hole, so I don't want to be that guy."
He went on to add, "Secondly, I asked Alanis, 'I'm getting calls by the media and they want to know who this guy is.' And she said, 'Well, you know it could be a bunch of people. But you can say whatever you want.' So one time, I was doing a red carpet somewhere and [the press] just wore me down and everybody wanted to know so I said, 'Yeah, all right, I'm the guy. There I said it.' So then it became a snowball effect of, 'OH! So you are the guy!' It's just become this silly urban legend that I just have to laugh at."
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In a 2019 interview on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Alanis persisted to stay the tune's true inspiration a thriller. "No revealing, but I am intrigued at the thought — or at the fact — that more than one person has taken credit for it. I'm thinking, I don't know if you want to take credit for being the person I wrote 'You Oughta Know' about."
(If you've never heard the track ... take Alanis's word for it, because she's entirely proper.)
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Dave went on Jim Norton and Sam Roberts' SiriusXM show July 2022 and mentioned when he first heard Alanis's "You Outa Know" in 1995. This used to be in a while after Full House had wrapped up.
"I'm driving in Detroit and I've got my radio on, and I hear the hook for 'You Oughta Know' come on the radio," he said. "And I'm like, wow, this is a really cool hook. And then I start hearing the voice. I'm like, wow, this girl can sing. And I had no idea, you know, that this was the record. And then I was listening to the lyrics going, 'Ooh, oh no! Oh, I can't be this guy.'"
He then immediately purchased the CD and listened to it in his automobile.
“There used to be numerous acquainted stuff in there that her and I had mentioned,” he added. “Like [in ‘Right Through You’] ‘your shake is like a fish.’ I’d go, ‘Hey, lifeless fish me,’ and we’d do that dead-fish handshake. And so I began paying attention to it and I assumed, ‘Ooh, I feel I can have really hurt this woman.’ And that used to be my first idea.”
Dave mentioned they have since reconnected and are on just right phrases.
"I'll tell you the kind of person she is," he said. "When my sister Sharon was dying with cancer, Alanis was living in Toronto. My sister was in Detroit. She actually drove to Detroit with her guitar and sat with my sister playing songs and singing to my sister in the hospital. That's the kind of human being she is. So I've never had anything bad to say about her. She's lovely."
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