During an interview on “The One Night Show,” Alanis Morisette revealed, “All of a sudden I was being held up at gunpoint.” The singer added, “They wanted all my things and I knew that I was going to give them anything, first of all, and second of all I had my backpack with the whole “Jagged Little Pill” record contents in it,” reports Metro. While the standoff wasn’t precisely a near-death experience in the definitive sense, the precious music and lyrics to “Jagged Little Pill’s” greatest tracks could have easily been carried off and discarded by the clueless thugs. 

The assailants descended upon Morissette and made her hand over her purse and wallet. In hindsight, you could say it was a small price to pay given the astronomical amount of money “Jagged Little Pill” earned her in the long run. “I gave them my wallet and my purse and they said ‘go lie down’ with my backpack and I thought ‘maybe they’ll grab that on the way out,’ but they didn’t.” On speaking about the potential aftermath of her ordeal, Morissette said she “was pretty close to having to start the record all over again,” according to Rolling Stone

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