"I like to think that we parted as good friends," he told HuffPost Live. Regardless of whether you believe him now or then, Coulier maintains there are no hard feelings between the two exes. Can I just call you right back?' And so I remembered that line when I heard 'You Oughta Know,' and it was more like, 'Uh-oh.'" "She called and I said, 'Hey, you know, I'm right in the middle of dinner. "We had already broken up," he continued. "But the one that got me was, 'I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner.'" "There was a lot of familiar stuff," he said. The actor also told HuffPost Live last year about the moment he realized that the song, in fact, did strike a chord. When he first heard the 1995 song on the radio, he told the newspaper, "I said 'Wow, this girl is angry.' I listened to the song over and over again and I said 'I think I have really hurt this person.'"Īlanis Morissette Tops Weird Habits of Celebrity Moms There I said it.' So then it became a snowball effect of, 'OH! So you are the guy!'Ĭoulier's latest comments, however, contradict what he told The Calgary Herald back in 2008. "One time, I was doing a red carpet somewhere and just wore me down and everybody wanted to know so I said, 'Yeah, all right, I'm the guy. So Coulier, who dated Morissette in 1992, started what he now calls an "urban legend." How Dave Coulier Knew Alanis Morissette's 'You Oughta Know' Was About Him "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.
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reached the pinacle of success in her late teens in canada as a cheerful pop singer.Then Uncle Joey from Full House dumped her and she became all femanistic and reached global success in the mid 90s with her songs about angst. "First of all, the guy in that song is a real a-hole, so I don't want to be that guy," Coulier, now 54, told Buzzfeed recently. Singer/Actor born 1974 in Ottawa, Canada. You would think he ought to know by now, but Dave Coulier continues to contradict himself about whether or not former girlfriend Alanis Morissette wrote her popular breakup song, "You Oughta Know," about him.Īfter admitting to being the subject of Morissette's scathing anthem, the actor who played Uncle Joey in "Full House" now says the song had nothing to do with him.