Weeds Helped Alanis Morissette 'Detox'

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Singer Alanis Morissette says that working on Weeds - a TV show about selling pot - helped with her real-life addiction to food. The 35-year-old Canadian, who is currently making guest appearances in the comedy about a marijuana dealer, says: "Weeds was my solace and respite in the back of the bus on tour.

"I was in the middle of detoxing at the time, and it was my replacement addiction for food. "Weeds helps me. The irony is hilarious." She will appear in seven episodes as a doctor who cares for Mary-Louise Parker's character. The singer enjoys the storyline based on the exploits of a suburban mum turned drug dealer. "Somehow, they make very fantastical things seem very mundane and commonplace, which I love," Morissette says, "and anything that pushes the envelope politically. "Touching on legalisation just by having a show called Weeds is amazing." Acting is not the former child star's only project. She is also working on a book that, she says, "is decidedly not a memoir". But the book will include questions and answers, anecdotes and humour about body-image - significant for someone who has wrestled with her own in previous years. Morissette is also training for a marathon. "I'm doing it on behalf of eating disorders." "My thought is, on great way for people to heal their relation to food is treating the body as an instrument rather than an ornament."

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