Avril Lavigne has given plenty of self-important, immature interviews in which she's told stories about kneeing guys in the balls, said that she's the best thing that's every happened to her husband, and said that people who hate her are "losers". She also used the fact that she sent some used clothing to Hurricane Katrina victims as evidence of her generosity, and said she gives her workers "stuff" because they "don't make much money." Considering that Avril's the one who pays them, you think she would realize that she could raise their salaries and change that.
In a new interview with OK! Magazine, the 23 year-old singer doesn't come across as obnoxious as she has in the past. Avril talks about her new clothing line of barbie-type punk clothing for tweens called Abbey Dawn which is currently available at Kohl's stores in the US. She also confirms the rumor that she had all her backup dancers dye their hair brown so she would be the only blonde person on stage. As for whether she's ready to have children with her husband of two years, Deryck Whibley, Avril says she not ready for the responsibility and will wait until she's in her 30s:
Are you planning on having children someday?
Oh God! I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don’t even know if I could handle a dog right now. I’m so not ready. Someday I’ll be a mom but not until I’m in my 30s.
It was your second wedding anniversary on July 15. How did you and Deryck celebrate?
We went away for the night and went to our favorite restaurant and just had a very romantic day and evening. If I wasn’t on tour right now, I would like to have gone on vacation to Hawaii or something but I’m only home for the week.
How are you able to keep the relationship strong when you are touring for so long?
We e-mail and talk on the phone. I’m always on my Blackberry. He comes out and visits. I was just in Europe and he came out for two weeks at the beginning of the tour and two weeks at the end of the tour.
It’s really great having Deryck around because he’s really talented and he can help out and give me notes on the show. After I took my voice lessons he was like ‘whoa, you’re voice is the best I’ve ever heard it.’ He has a really good ear.
So when Deryck isn’t around, do you hang out mostly with your dancers on tour?
I’m really close with a few of the band guys and a few of the dancers. We get together and we hang out and we have dance parties. I always end up being friends with random dancers because they’re with you for so long and there’s no one else around.
One dancer commented that you made everyone dye their hair brown so you could be the only blonde on stage. Is that true?
Everyone was brown except one of my favorite girls was blonde so we were like ‘you have to have brown hair.’ It wouldn’t look right.
I wanted my girls to look really punk rock with like black hair and that’s pretty standard for everyone, like Madonna and Mariah Carey. If they’re blonde you’re not going to see another blonde on stage.
[From OK! Magazine]
Avril also said that she's not so concerned about what people say about her because they're just trying to make her look bad and it's "all false"
How does it make you feel when you hear rumors about you going around the Internet?
You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it’s completely false.
Does it really bother you?
Yeah of course, as a human it can be hurtful, but at the same time I don’t let it affect me because there are more positives going on than negatives. I’m just some chick from Napanee, Ontario and I can’t believe where I am today.
Is the criticism harder to take as a musician, who has to pour her heart into her music?
When you’re a rock star or a person who puts your music out there, it’s more personal. But I absolutely have nothing to complain about.
Avril spit on the paparazzi in three separate incidents in 2006 and then blamed them for it. She did it outside of busy Hollywood clubs like Hyde and it's not like they were stalking her at the time. She's calmed down a lot since then, but it's pretty amusing that she's saying it's all other people's fault that she has a bad reputation because we somehow want to bring her down.
Avril also defended the stories that she went out partying at a time when she had canceled concerts due to losing her voice. She said "I didn’t go partying the entire time. When I got home, I sat at home." It sure sounds like she went out some of the time. By her logic, it's ok though because she did stay at her house at some point. Avril is definitely saying less things that are really rude and I guess that's an improvement over her past behavior.
As for having one her of backup dancers dye their hair brown, that sounds pretty minor and not like a big plot to be the only blonde. Gwen Stefani hired some Japanese American women to follow her around dressed like school girls and they were contractually obligated not to talk. Not that there was anything defensible about that.
Avril Lavigne is shown performing in Monaco on 6/14/08. Credit: ANG/Fame Pictures
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