Kylie & Avril Lavigne on Sk8er Boi Movie, Kelce Party of 6 & The Most Suspicious Child | Ep. 20

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I'm not going to lie.

I definitely have a, yep, there it is, a diaper in my bra

because

sometimes you don't want a milk stain on your shirt.

Yeah, that's really it.

Let's record this podcast.

Welcome back to Not Gonna Lie, a wave original brought to you by Lululemon.

I'm your host, Kylie Kelsey.

I have four daughters, ages five and under.

I have a husband that played in the NFL, and I've been waiting two months to say these words, so please listen carefully.

We back!

That's right, I'm officially back from maternity leave.

I am unsure whether or not my eyes are open right now.

And we're going to find out if I can still form a sentence.

We're in this together, okay?

Coming up on today's episode, I have a lot to catch you guys up on from the past eight weeks, so I'm going to get honest about life as a family of six.

That still sounds fucking crazy.

In a brand new edition of Can I Be Honest?

And then I'm going to be joined by a punk rock icon right from her tour bus, the sensation behind hits like Complicated and Skaterboy, and someone I have no business speaking to, Avril Levine.

But before I get to any of that, it's been a while since I put out an episode, so I thought I'd quickly run through some ground rules I just made up.

as a little refresher of what we do around here.

Rule number one.

This goes for this podcast and it also just goes for my life in general.

If you fuck around, you will in fact find out.

Yes, it's very simple.

You fuck around, you find out.

Your actions, words, whatever you want to say have consequences.

You know, we're learning that in our house.

I got a five, a four, and a two-year-old that have enough sass for a whole high school.

Okay?

Fuck around, find out.

So simple.

Rule number two.

These episodes are 45 minutes long, except for special occasions when Queen Emma asks me several times, and I got to respect the hustle.

That's so fucking bullshit.

Queen Emma tried to sneak that one in here.

There's a reason we put out bonus clips on more shit Monday.

I know that we record for longer than 45 minutes, and I know there's great content in some of the stuff that we can't squeeze into the 45-minute limit.

But I'm gonna tell you right now,

I'm sticking to it.

Note from the desk of Queen Emma.

Oh boy.

Hey girl.

Nope, you're done.

While we're here, thoughts on going to 60 minutes today?

No worries if not, but also there's a lot to talk about, and it's Avril.

Also unrelated, but what if I bring back oh, oh, oh,

here she goes with bribery, but what if I bring over a Wegman's chocolate cake?

You're the real queen, okay.

TTYL, Chica.

No.

Anyway, rule number three, swear to your heart's content.

That's right.

Just drop the F-bomb for funsies.

I love it so much.

And honestly, it helps you put emphasis on the words coming out of your mouth.

Now, I realize that not everyone loves this rule.

We've got some comments here from a few disgruntled listeners.

Someone commented, so, period, much, period, swearing, period.

I understand she loves the F word, but wow.

I understand that cursing is not for everyone.

I really do understand that,

but it's the way I speak.

There are certain times where I turn it off.

This podcast is not one of them.

The next comment says, she does absolutely does.

Not correct.

Try again.

Too much.

T-O.

Also incorrect.

You need an extra O there, just to be clear.

The point you were trying to make is that I'm too much, an excess.

T-O-O.

Small thing.

Cursing on her podcast.

Ooh, you got that one right.

It's her podcast.

Interesting.

That's so interesting.

That's just uncalled for

a woman.

Excuse me?

That's just uncalled for a woman.

so if a man were

if a man were doing it it'd be okay

to throw the f-bomb

wow no respect for others shame actually

i try to put an emphasis on how we should care about others

but you came in here with this bullshit and you know what we're gonna have to revert back to rule one you fucked around you're about to find out

oh we can't use any of this rule number four this is not gonna lie.

So you guessed it.

No lies are permitted.

I am always going to be honest with you.

If I cannot say something and be honest about it, I just won't say it.

And that's it for not gonna lie ground rules.

I'm sure my mom brain missed something.

Let us know in the comments or at NGL with Kylie, and I'll probably read them at 2 a.m.

tonight when I'm feeding Finn.

And speaking of Finn, I'd like to take a few minutes to catch you guys up on my life as a mother of four children.

Oh, God.

That's right.

Four.

This is, can I be honest about my maternity leave?

First of all, I just want to get ahead of something.

Maternity leave is not a break or a vacation.

That is a crazy concept.

Do you think I was just kicking up my feet and laying in the sun out by the pool and chilling without a care in the world?

Because you'd be wrong.

I birthed a child who prefers contact naps.

That's right.

I got another Wyatt sleeper.

We love that.

I have been attached to the tiny human for the last eight weeks.

My arm,

specifically my right arm, is permanently, just permanently in this position, claw included,

this position.

I am going to have the sickest bicep on the side.

It's just raging.

It's, we've been attached.

Maternity leave for me is figuring out how to do things one-handed again.

That is a skill that you have to master.

We have graduated to having her wrapped onto me for

no exaggeration, probably anywhere from three to five hours of the day collectively which is interesting um

i will say

since it is my fourth child i am really doing my best to soak in all of the baby like her cute little like coos and noises um i will say

It's almost as bad as googling on your fourth kid when you start scrolling back in your camera role to see what your other children were doing at this age.

It's a bad idea.

It's not a good idea.

And I would like to stop doing it, but I can't.

And in case you were wondering, I am still Googling things because that doesn't stop either.

It's similar to when people say to me, well, you have four kids.

What's your advice?

No, I don't have any advice.

I actually still have no idea what I'm doing.

If I had to describe the change going from three kids to four kids in two words or less, holy shit, it's not

terrible.

Let's go with not terrible.

That sounds better.

Not terrible.

Those are my two words.

If you ask me on a day where she does a two-hour stretch night,

I could do it in one word, and that word would be fuck.

It's

We're winging it.

We are absolutely winging it.

There's a lot of, can you bring that to me instead of me having to come to you?

Because once we're stationary, it's so much easier to be stationary.

I will also sit on the floor a lot.

That's very helpful because it gives the other girls an opportunity to come and sit with me.

to get closer to Finn in a safe way because,

wow,

they are very interested in what she's doing.

And

Benny is the only one who's not interested in what she's doing and likes to pretend like she's not there.

It's a fun little game we're playing.

Just today, I put Finn down on the floor to change her diaper.

And for some reason, Benny stood up and ran straight at me full speed.

And I had to put my hand out.

Of course, I was ready for it.

We've done this a couple times now.

And that's part of the reason why we're stuck here.

That's because if I put her down, I can't guarantee safety the way I can if she is elevated out of reach of Bennett.

So

Wyatt and Ellie have been super helpful.

They will go and get me diapers.

They want to talk to her.

She very much locks in on their faces and is distracted from an upset moment by their voices and by how close they get, which is,

I mean, one of the cutest things you've ever seen in your whole life.

And it's very sweet to see them mirror what you do with the baby.

So they will come over and mirror how I talk to her.

They ask her questions.

They make the oohs and the ahs so that she can sort of mimic the mouth movements,

or at least we pretend she does.

I mean, guys, she's seven weeks old.

She's we're

eat,

sleep, poop, cry.

That's it.

That's what we got.

That's That's her four activities.

Finn is

every single day changing her look.

I can't necessarily say that she still looks as aggressively like Jason,

but the Kelsey genes are strong, guys.

I made Kelsey women.

I don't know.

There's very little McDevitt gene coming through, and that's okay because it turns out my husband makes very cute girls.

But I would like a little,

just

a little

credit, just a little credit

when you look at them.

Just like, maybe, maybe she did build them.

I'm not gonna get it, it's fine.

And that does it for can I be honest about maternity leave.

Next up, the debut of a brand new segment we're calling places Kylie has some business being.

Most of the time, I have absolutely no business being in the places I go.

It really is astonishing the number of places I've been that I cannot figure the fuck out why I was there or how I ended up there, but

it was pretty cool.

But occasionally, I can admit, I attend events that

I do belong at.

For example,

sometimes I go to events for the organization I work with.

I definitely belong there.

Last week, all six of us Kelseys, good God, every time I say it, went to the Eagles Autism Challenge.

It was our first official outing of a party of six,

except for

brunch on Mother's Day.

That was the other time.

I was like, I know that we've left the house.

Everybody, I know I packed up the car and everybody went, but when was it?

It was Mother's Day brunch.

That's the only other time we've left the house as a party of six.

This year's event raised over $10 million.

That one event,

$10 million for the Eagles Autism Foundation.

There was a video going around from the event that the Eagles shared with the caption: Bennett Kelsey's second meeting with Swoop went a lot better than last time.

Queen Emma rolled the clip.

So she's checking out Swoop

and

she finally gives him a wave, which is a big deal.

What I will say is, and you can witness it throughout that entire video, she's my most suspicious child.

She's suspicious of everyone and everything, and she will side-eye you, and she will eventually

soften.

But she's going to give you the side-eye first, probably a little bit of a squint, like a,

and then decides whether or not you're cool.

I will say,

this is a perfect time.

Eagles Autism Challenge for this year is over, but you know what's coming.

That's right.

Shorebirds, it's year five of guest bartending for Jason and a number of his teammates, both current Eagles players and former Eagles players, will be guest bartending.

Every so often, we end up with some other NFL players who are local to the Jersey Shore.

This year, we may or may not be putting the ask out to some other people.

We never guarantee anything because I don't like to let people down.

So you just got to show up to see who comes.

And that's kind of fun.

Moving on.

I've mentioned it before.

Doom scrolling takes on a life of its own during the newborn phase because I need something to do while Finn is eating.

You know, she's here.

I'm here.

And I occasionally will look down, but a homegirl is usually half asleep.

I'm not kidding.

One eye open.

And sometimes not even that while she's eating.

And so.

So I don't need all the people in here like, that's the bonding time.

You should be talking.

We're fine.

Thank you.

For this week's Doom Scroll of the Week, I most recently dusted off the old reading portion of my brain at 3 a.m.

and found my way to an article from The Guardian titled Cringe: How Millennials Became Uncool.

Yikes.

And it basically just explains all the ways Gen Z likes to make fun of millennials.

So, let's find out exactly how cringe I am.

Number one: low socks.

I absolutely do this.

I don't want to see my socks.

I don't want to see them.

They are low riding socks.

Number two, skinny jeans or mom jeans.

To be clear, any jeans I put on are mom jeans.

So you can kiss my ass on that one.

I do wear skinny jeans.

I will say, I will say this.

I haven't worn skinny jeans in a minute.

but they're definitely still in my closet.

So I'm waiting for the moment they come back.

And I hate to break it to you, they are

because

I've seen some influencers wearing them.

So, ha, take that.

And on another note about jeans, I would just like to share that Queen Emma once told me about a postpartum jean hack.

That I don't know why it never crossed my mind, but on my fourth child, I've taken advantage of it.

Don't put your maternity jeans away, ladies.

Keep them out for as long as you need them after you push that baby out.

Because I was at a shoot specifically for not going to lie, and I had just started having to hair tie my pants closed to still be able to fit in my jeans.

And Emma said, that's weird.

I'm however many months postpartum she was, it wasn't that many.

It really wasn't.

Don't make that face, Emma.

Queen Emma said, Look, I still have my maternity jeans on.

And I had a baby a couple months ago.

And I ran with that.

I have worn my maternity jeans recently in the past couple weeks.

And I will continue to do it until I can button back up my old jeans.

Also,

side note: not that we're not already on a hell of a rant here.

Just buy bigger pants.

Number three, a love for avocado toast.

Apparently, Gen Z's green grub of choice is matcha.

I like matcha too.

But avocado toast is banging, okay?

Healthy fats, guys.

You can't crush on us for healthy fats.

Number four,

excessive use of the crying-laughing emoji.

Oh, no.

I just, oh.

I just texted someone back last night.

Maybe six of them.

That was it.

That was the whole answer

it says for a zoomer the skull emoji indicates humor i'm not dead okay i'm not dead yet and i am laughing with tears in my eyes

and you know what i like to do not lie and be accurate so

kick rocks number five taking selfies using the front phone camera I'm gonna read you the description given so that the people,

my fellow millennials, can know what the heck they're talking about.

Gen Z favors the back camera and volume button using the 0.5 lens option to create a wide-angled picture with the snapper's giant distorted arm protruding from the bottom of the frame.

Also, if there are any millennials

that have Gen Zers in their life that will come up to them and put their phone very close to either above their head or near their forehead.

They're point fiving you, okay?

Don't let them do that.

Don't let them get that close, okay?

Keep them at arm's length.

Don't let them get that close to you.

They're trying to point five you.

Do you know what it looks like when you get point five from that angle?

Ridiculous.

To summarize this segment, I'm five for five on cringe, so yikes.

Okay, that's it for Doom Scroll of the Week.

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She's a punk rock trailblazer and the sole reason I went to buy myself vans in middle school.

And now I'm talking to her from her greatest hits tour bus.

Avril Levine, welcome to not gonna lie.

Hi.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's good to meet you.

No, thank you.

Like I said in your intro, I legitimately went to the store to buy vans because I was like, I don't think I'm edgy or cool enough.

to do any of the other trends you were doing at the time, but I was like, I feel like I can commit to a black pair of ants.

Classic skateboarding.

That was as edgy as, that's it.

It was as edgy as I could get.

I was like,

such a dweeb that I was like,

I think this is as far as I can go and pull it off.

Did you ever even know if I was pulling it off?

I'm sure you did.

Did you, you're in athletic.

Did you ever skateboard?

No.

I tried a couple times at my friend's house and nearly ate shit.

So I just,

I said that

enough of that.

That's the thing about skateboarding.

Like when you eat shit, you eat shit.

Yes.

Yes, when it goes right out from under you and like shoots very far down the street.

Yeah.

It also adds insult to injury that you usually end up chasing it.

So like not only did you just land on your ass, you now have to run after it.

You have to get up fast enough to run after it.

You know?

I remember like skateboarding like like opposite of at the grocery store by my high school, opposite of like five stairs.

The board like landing

vertically in between my legs and just like limping back to the high school.

I was like, that's the last time I tried to go upstairs.

It'll humble you real quick.

Now, it wasn't just me copying your style.

So many girls were dying streaks of their hair pink, wearing the spiked bracelets and neckties, but no one could pull it off like you.

Can you explain why you are the only one that I've ever seen that can truly pull off a necktie?

Like, it looks like you were meant to wear it.

I don't know why I was doing it.

Like, I took a bunch of my dad's ties and I threw them on

and I wore it in the video.

And it kind of just, I kept, I saw to do that.

Like, if I do one thing style-wise, like, I kind of keep wearing it over and over.

I don't know.

I wasn't really thinking about it.

It's strange because, like, that was my introduction into the spotlight and so like a lot of people were talking about it but what was cool was my first show

I

played like this like little show the Roxy in Canada in Vancouver and like I was in my dressing room and I looked down the the back alley and there was like a lineup of fans and they were all wearing neckties and I was like wait, this is so crazy.

Because like you don't, you know, you don't really think of anything like that happening, but the, everyone came dressed to the shows, they had like the stick stripe hair and the black eyes, and the necktie, and the spike bracelet.

I was like, this is gnarly.

Is there anything from your wardrobe that you've considered bringing back from

way back when?

Well, I actually did for the Greatest Hits album shoot, which that record just came out like last year.

I got the complicated music video tank top and tie out from storage and the skater boy green t-shirt and striped tie.

And I put those back on 22 years later for that photo shoot.

So that was, and they fit.

So I was like, I was a little worried.

That's incredible.

And they're still in

condition.

So, um,

so I made the, I brought those back out and wore those again for the photo shoot.

I thought about like on the greatest hits tour, like maybe like bringing the tie back out on stage

for

uh to wear.

And then I was like, no, I can't do it yet.

I can't do it yet.

Maybe it'll come back around.

That'd be a really special moment.

Yeah.

Speaking of your style, I've talked about on the show before, I always do my makeup literally right before we turn the camera off, hit record.

I read that you are the same way, that you do your own makeup.

I do.

I'm really impatient.

I have a really hard time like sitting still.

Sometimes, like, I get people to my hair and makeup, but a lot of the time, I kind of just like take over and get in there to make it faster.

Like, today, like, I like curled the front of my hair and then I had somebody else, but like, I'll get in, like, eyelining the eyes, doing it all.

Um, I can do a black smoky eye look in two minutes.

It's well practiced at this point.

Like, I can do it in the dark on a moving tour bus.

You know, it's always when we're backstage and on the go, we're always kind of doing hair and makeup in like weird rooms backstage dressing room a moving bus so I could yeah I wanted to do my makeup like super fast and in the dark now on a day that you might not have a show are you still doing a smoky eye or is it downtime so you're not doing any makeup I'd say probably like

a year ago I was like kind of started just getting into the the no makeup makeup look yes the like more just like a mascara and a lip gloss.

But like on those days, I do like to just take like a black eyeliner and maybe just at least go underneath and like smudge it.

So there's something.

But I like, if I had to choose one

item of makeup, it would be mascara at this point, probably.

Do you have a holy grail?

I'm always intrigued by this because I have one that I've used since high school.

So the eyeliner, my holy grail is the

Max Molder.

Like I can't like.

That's such a perfect name for the look that you're pulling off with it.

Yeah.

Nice.

Yeah.

That's easy to remember.

And it's like it's never, it hasn't changed.

I've literally used it my whole life.

So if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I've been wearing makeup.

That's perfect.

Yeah.

What do you, are you a

miscarriage?

The CoverGirl Orange Tube Lash Blast.

It's, I, I refuse to use any other ones

i'm gonna i'm just gonna keep rolling with it until they discontinue it what's your makeup routine like are you foundation no eyebrows usually i fill in the front of my eyebrows put on some mascara and slap on some chapstick that's like an that would be like uh i actually need to like see other people

uh other than and then and then i'll do like bare minerals if i need like some blurring

some bronzer and that's really an elevated look.

I'm terrible at makeup.

I really should let someone else do it, honestly.

Yeah.

So, you just kicked off the latest leg of your greatest hits tour.

That's what you're currently on.

You've got some huge shows coming up at MSG and Hershey Park.

I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and we luckily settled here.

How punk rock is

Philadelphia?

Well, I would say, like, I'm kind of repping right now with the hair.

I

did notice the green.

So, what's like, tell me a little bit about Philadelphia.

Like, are there like, I'm assuming there's like a lot of like pubs and beer drinkers, right?

Yes, my husband being one of them.

Oh, my God.

So, I saw that you just signed a fan's tattoo portrait of you.

What's the weirdest thing you've ever signed?

Probably, like body parts.

now that I think of it as probably underage too

I think yeah I've had a lot of meet and greets where the fans come to the meet and greet with like a huge tattoo and then they're like they asked me to sign their arm or to draw this skater boy star on them

for a tattoo and then the other night opening night there was a fan front row with a giant sign saying I have a huge portrait of you on my leg will you sign my leg so I can get a tattoo?

So I was like, Hell yeah.

I mean, if you're that committed, get on up here.

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You have so many hit songs.

Which one is your favorite one to perform live now?

Um,

yes, there's a lot of singles.

Is it like picking your favorite child?

Yeah,

there's a lot of singles, a lot of hits.

i love girlfriend it's like up tempo it's really fun to open with i love closing the show right now it's without being in a new album cycle because i'm just playing all the older songs like i love closing the skater boy or opening the skater boy um but then i love

the ballad moment um head above water and I'm with you which are more like emotional songs And

then some of the, oh, and then I just put out a brand new song, Young and Dumb.

So that's just like a fun like little pop punk song with Simple Plan because they're out here on the tour with me.

And they toured with me last year on the last leg of the Greatest Hits tour.

And I was like, why did we not have a song out together?

Because they come up and they perform with me every night on stage.

So we just like a month, like last minute before we did this tour, I was like, guys, let's just write a song and throw it out get it out there for for the fans before we do this tour so we went in the studio wrote young and dumb released it like a week ago and now we're playing it live and they get out on the road with me like two in a couple days this tour um

around i wanted to do some different stuff so i'm i have like some cover songs and i've released a few other songs this year with some other musical artists, like

Nate Smith.

He's a country artist.

Do you like country music?

I dabble, but only because my husband is far more eclectic in what he listens to.

He seems really funny.

He's a great talker.

I saw him.

I saw a clip of him.

I don't know.

I pulled up.

I think I like reposted it.

I thought it was so funny.

It was kind of random for me to repost it, but I posted it on my Instagram story.

I was like, at the one of the games, he was like drinking.

I think it was after his game.

He was like drinking in the stands, like beer and like partying.

Yeah, that tracks.

It went viral.

It all tracks.

There's one picture in particular people love now.

He has both hands up, like beer in his hand, a hat on, and like no shirt.

And he was in Buffalo watching a game that his brother was playing in.

That's the one I saw.

Yes.

And I actually like it randomly popped up on my on, in my feed and I like reposted it to Instagram story.

And I was like,

this is hilarious.

He's just, he marches to the beat of his own drum and it's so much fun to watch because you never really know what's going to happen.

So he likes, he likes beer and country music.

Yes.

So back to the country music.

You probably wouldn't pin me as this kind of person, but I like drive an F-150 and I love country music.

I grew up singing in the fairs, country music.

And then I recently recorded a song with Nate Smith.

He's this really great

new country artist.

He's just like blowing up.

He has incredible songs.

So I started performing our new song together, Died from a Broken Heart during

this set here.

I have a song with Billie Idol called 77 that just came out.

So we're playing that.

And then I covered Pink Pony, soap, and

you know, with the second round of the tour, you know, like switched up a little bit.

So we've been stripping it down, doing some acoustic stuff, and like brand new songs this time around.

We love to speak things into existence on this show.

So if you want to put out into the universe, if you could sing a duet with anyone, who would it be?

It would be cool to go back to do a song with Shania Twain

because

just do a full circle

yes because I guess you know the story when I was like 14 before I even had a record deal in Canada I won a contest to sing

on stage with Shania during her tour her huge tour and I don't know how how that happened my dad like came home from work and he heard it on the radio.

So we sent in a tape of me singing and I won.

And I met her when I was 14 and got up on stage with her.

And that was like so cool.

And then we've, we've kept in touch over the years.

Now, getting up on stage at 14

with Shania Twain,

how did you handle that in the moment?

Do you remember like being nervous?

Do you remember

like anything about it?

Or did you completely black out?

Because I feel like in that moment, that high level of excitement, I truly think I would black out and forget everything.

It was like I did, but I didn't.

It was like out of body.

All this adrenaline, it was like I was freaking out, but not.

It was

like I was in a different dimension.

It was like a dream-like state where I walked out on stage and it was just this like packed arena.

And I was so young, 14, and

thinking,

I really want to do this.

Like, because this, I don't know, it was just in my body.

I was just like, oh, I really want to do this.

Like, I hope I get to do this.

And then, like, I sang with her, and

I think it was like,

am I singing the right words?

I don't know.

I hope

it's coming out.

And it was, I think it was like for a 14-year-old, like looking back, I think it was like easy and natural.

I think I just did it.

It happened.

And,

but I remember how I felt.

And like, I was like, this is just such a dream.

And like, I hope that I get to do this one day.

And then like two years later,

three years later,

I sold out that arena was my first tour.

So maybe that was just great.

Maybe that, maybe that moment as a 14-year-old sort of fed the beast of like, now I need to get back here and do it myself.

Yeah.

And I just think I was just, I can't believe I did that.

Like, I was from a small town in Canada, 5,000 people, Napanee, Ontario.

I had no connections, I didn't have an in or like know anyone in the industry.

It was like, after that, like, that was like helpful because like it put me in all the little papers.

When you won Best New Artist at the VMAs, Complicated and Skaterboy were playing on every radio station.

Can we just start out by talking about the spelling of Skaterboy?

Yeah,

Absolute genius.

Thanks.

Was it your idea to spell it that way?

And I will preface this with,

I truly, like still to this day, I've listened to songs for years and years and years, and I will occasionally try to search them on Spotify.

This is one of the only songs because, you know, artists will mix up the spelling of their songs or

it comes like almost down to the details of like using lowercase or capital, like it really people get very into it.

Skaterboy is one of the only ones where I'm like, I know how to spell.

I'm confident.

Every time I type that into the search bar, I'm like, I know I'm gonna nail this.

How did you come up with that spelling?

I don't know.

I was just like, kind of, that's how I spelt some stuff: just like doodles, amazing, like

dotting the eyes with stars,

eyes with X's.

Like, sometimes A's would be like that

star, like the skater boy star.

On the first album, the title,

like on the picture, let go and my name is like my writing.

And then I wrote out all the, hand wrote out all the lyrics inside the CD booklet.

And so they just like took my stars and stuff too, and we put it on like the merch and it just became a thing.

That's such a great personal touch through and through.

Skaterboy star.

That's amazing.

How does it feel now when singers like Billie Eilish or Olivia Rodrigo talk about you being an inspiration to them?

Yeah, that was really cool.

Like, I got to a point where I'd been around long enough and there was these like up-and-coming artists that were like younger, like Billy and Olivia.

And they were talking about me in their interviews and, you know, had mentioned that I was like an inspiration to them and that felt really cool.

And

I love that.

Like it's, it's, it's a giant compliment.

And then with both of those girls, I was able to meet them, hang out with them, spend some time with them.

Olivia had me jump up on stage with her and sing complicated.

And it was really, it was awesome.

And also like, they're both really cool and like independent and and like have like strong messages too.

And

I think very two very powerful women in the industry.

So it's really cool to see.

Now, since you're on Not Gonna Lie, we like to play a game on here called Is It True?

Where every question starts with a is it true, followed by something we read prepping for this episode.

And you tell me if it is in fact true, and please feel free to provide a background.

Is it true that you got banned from TRL in 2004?

Yeah.

I got banned from TRL.

What happened?

I flipped the bird on live television.

I was like answering my question and I just went like that.

And then I got in so much trouble.

And my manager was like,

they're not letting you back on TRL again because you flip the bird and cursed on live television.

I was like, oh, bummer.

Oh, be cooler, people.

Come on.

We We love that around here, by the way.

Is it true that there's a skater boy movie in the works?

It is true.

Oh, there is a new movie.

There is a skater boy movie in the skater.

Yes.

I've been working on it for a while and we're in the process of that.

And it's very exciting.

currently putting that all together right now.

Something I'm really looking forward to.

Oh, I can't wait.

Is it true that you eventually want to put out a Christmas album?

Putting Out a Christmas album is on my bucket list.

I have been talking about it for so long.

Yes, I absolutely want to make a Christmas record.

I will say that we already have Kelly Clarkson on board, but my husband for the last three years has put out a Christmas album with some other Eagles players, some of his former teammates.

And they do it for charity.

So if you want one foot in the door, I know a guy.

Just saying.

Okay.

Is it true that one time a fan gave you a wedding dress?

It's true.

I flew into

Korea,

and there was like

hundreds of fans at the airport.

And

I ran and got thrown into my van.

And they tossed in all these gifts.

One being a wedding dress,

one being a live rabbit.

Oh.

I was sitting in a van, like we were like driving to the hotel and I was like, oh, I guess I'll open this.

And it was like, I was like, ah, it was a bunny.

What happened?

What did you do with the money?

Someone from the label took it and

perfected.

Okay.

I don't know.

They were like, we'll take care of it and get it somewhere safe.

That's such a wide range.

And then, yeah, and then I got to the hotel room and opened up the rest of the gifts.

And I was like, this is a wedding dress.

And I, I,

yeah, that was, that was an interesting one.

I cannot thank you enough for coming on to talk to me today.

I, like I said before,

huge fan for a very long time now.

And I am so excited that you are touring with the greatest hits because those are the things that I started my love of you with.

So

I am excited to hear that you're headed to Hershey Park because that's not far off from us.

And I wish you all the best on the rest of your tour.

Well, thank you so much.

And thank you for having me.

It was good to meet you and to hang out today and to chit-chat.

I can't believe you're going to be on stage in six hours.

Good luck tonight.

Now I'm on stage in five hours.

Thank you so much again to Avril Levine for joining me today.

You can buy tickets to her greatest hits tour right now.

She's also playing Bonnaroo, the Vans Warp tour in Washington, D.C., and the When We Were Young Festival later this year.

You can find even more clips from our longer conversation on my YouTube channel on More Shit Monday.

And that's a wrap on another episode of Not Gonna Lie.

I'll be back next Thursday with a brand new episode.

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