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Full House star Dave Coulier realized how badly he hurt his ex-girlfriend Alanis Morissette when he first heard the lyrics You Oughta Know.
Oh, he knows, all right.
The Canadian actor has long been rumoured as the heartbreaker in her 1995 hit that details a particularly bad breakup, and serves as a reminder of what it feels like to be quickly replaced.
“I hear the hook for You Oughta Know come on the radio and I’m like, ‘Wow, this is a really cool hook,’” Coulier told SiriusXM hosts Jim Norton and Sam Roberts on a recent episode.
“And then I start hearing the voice. I’m like, ‘Wow! This girl can sing,’” he continued. “And then I was like, I’m listening to the lyrics going, ‘Ooh, oh, no! Oh, I can’t be this guy.’”
He recounts how after he heard the song, he went and bought the record and listened to the whole thing “from start to finish.”
“There was a lot of familiar stuff that her and I had talked about,” he explained. “Like, ‘Your shake is like a fish’ (in Right Through You). I’d go, ‘Hey, dead fish me,’ and we’d do this dead fish handshake.”
Hearing Jagged Little Pill in its entirety led Coulier to realize how their split affected her.
“I started listening to it and I thought, ‘Ooh, I think I may have really hurt this woman,’” he said. “And that was my first thought.”
Morissette and Coulier began dating in 1992 when she was 18 and he was 33. The relationship ended after two years and she released the Grammy-winning album the following year.
The singer has neither confirmed nor denied who the subject of her songs are.
In 2019, she told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that while she would not reveal the identity of her ex, but is “intrigued” that multiple people claim to be the song’s bad guy.
“I don’t know if you want to take credit for being the person I wrote ‘You Oughta Know’ about,” she said at the time.
“I just think, if you’re going to take credit for a song where I’m singing about someone being a douche or an a–hole, you might not want to say, ‘Hey! That’s me!’”
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