Avril Lavigne — or someone presenting as her — is eye-rolling regarding the long-held conspiracy idea the true Avril has been modified by a lookalike, nonetheless she moreover realizes they could very effectively be saying tons worse.

The singer-songwriter hopped on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast Wednesday the place host Alex Cooper requested regarding the wild rumor claiming she died once more throughout the early 2000s, and the lady now calling herself Avril … is totally an actor named Melissa Vandella.

Avril says the hypothesis’s utterly ridiculous … ‘set off she says she’s undoubtedly her — and all the idea she’s not is solely “dumb.”

In truth, in case you buy into the conspiracy, that’s exactly what you’d anticipate Melissa to say.

All the equivalent, this Avril says she’s merely optimistic with of us spreading the tall story, because of — as rumors go — this one’s pretty tame, as as compared with totally different further creepy and damaging rumors.

Avril says she feels she’s not the one artist to get hit with this type of conspiracy idea, and he or she’s correct on that rely. For instance, there’s the “Paul Is Lifeless” conspiracy about Paul McCartney, who some people think about really died in 1966.

Mainly, it isn’t a conspiracy specific to Avril, and he or she says she’s not sweating it because of it’s just so outlandish. Watch the clip — Avril and Alex can not stop cracking each other up.

As for why the reclusive Lavigne’s talking about this — she’s obtained a finest hits album coming out subsequent month … and her ‘Biggest Hits’ tour kicks off rapidly, so she’s attempting to get the phrase out.