Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette's Relationship Timeline
Breaking down the relationship between stars Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette, who dated in the early '90s.


If you are up on your pop culture, odds are that you know of Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette's relationship. The Full House big name and the musician dated within the early '90s prior to she become a family name, however their time together would become the stuff of legend after rumors abound that he was once the man she was singing about on her "Jagged Little Pill" album.
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With that being said, what are the precise main points surrounding the time that Dave and Alanis spent together as a couple? Keep studying for a timeline in their now-famous relationship and what went down between them.
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Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette began relationship in 1992.
Dave and Alanis met in 1992, when she used to be a pop famous person in house nation in Canada. Specifically, they crossed paths at an all-star hockey sport he was once collaborating in; she was once there to sing the nationwide anthem.
Before this, Dave had divorced his wife of 2 years, Jayne Modean, that yr.
Dave and Alanis split in 1994.
Despite a sizable age gap (Alanis used to be born in June 1974; Dave was once born in September 1959), the pair dated for two years prior to calling it quits. Though the exact causes stay unknown, she would cross on to write down some pretty scathing breakup anthems, which lovers would cross on to eventually hyperlink to Dave.
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In June 1995, Alanis's "Jagged Little Pill" album was released.
The couple's breakup allegedly spawned the music city legend to end all music urban legends. Many lovers believed that Alanis wrote the song "You Oughta Know" — which is largely thought to be considered one of her most famous and successful tracks — about Dave.
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In 2004, Alanis instructed Howard Stern she wasn't planning to tell anyone who "You Oughtta Know" used to be about.
"You wrote that song about Dave Coulier from Full House?" Howard requested Alanis on his display in 2004.
Alanis mentioned she would "never confirm or affirm who it's about" prior to admitting it is imaginable she may someday. Meanwhile, Howard's producer Gary Dell'Abate got here out to mention he heard the rumor from Dave's Full House co-star John Stamos that the music used to be indeed about Dave.
"There was no one in the studio when I wrote that song, so no one actually knows," Alanis mentioned in reaction.
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In 2014, Dave addressed the rumors about "You Oughta Know."
While speaking with BuzzFeed in 2014, Dave brought 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 2019, Alanis shared her take on the Dave/"You Oughta Know" rumors.
In a 2019 interview on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Alanis persisted to stay the song's true inspiration a mystery. "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 may have never heard the music ... take Alanis's word for it, because she's solely proper.)
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In 2022, Dave spread out about Alanis and the track again — together with in regards to the first time he heard "You Oughta Know."
Dave went on Jim Norton and Sam Roberts' SiriusXM display July 2022 and talked about when he first heard Alanis's "You Outa Know" in 1995. This was 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 mentioned. "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 right away bought the CD and listened to it in his car.
“There was numerous acquainted stuff in there that her and I had talked about,” he added. “Like [in ‘Right Through You’] ‘your shake is like a fish.’ I’d cross, ‘Hey, lifeless fish me,’ and we’d do that dead-fish handshake. And so I began taking note of it and I believed, ‘Ooh, I believe I may have really hurt this lady.’ And that was once my first idea.”
Dave said they have since reconnected and are on excellent phrases.
"I'll tell you the kind of person she is," he stated. "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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