Avril Lavigne Addresses Conspiracy Theory That She’s Been Replaced With Body Double Melissa Vandella – E! Online

Avril Lavigne cannot make it any more obvious.

The “Sk8er Boi” singer set the record straight on the conspiracy theory that she’s actually not Avril Lavigne, but a body double named Melissa Vandella. The bogus rumor—which claimed that Avril had died following the release of her 2003 debut album Let Go, prompting record execs to hire a doppelgänger to take her place—have been circulating around the internet since the early aughts.

Well, what’s the truth? “Obviously, I am me,” Avril said with a laugh during the May 15 episode of Call Her Daddy. “It’s so dumb.”

However, the 39-year-old does see the theories as somewhat of a compliment about her appearance.

“It’s just funny to me,” Avril explained. “On one end, everyone’s like, ‘You look the exact same. You haven’t aged a day.’ But then other people are like, ‘There’s a conspiracy theory that I’m not me.'”

Acknowledging that it “could be worse,” the pop-punk rocker joked that she “got a good one” when it comes to supposed scandals.