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“Dave Coulier and Alanis Morissette started dating in 1992 when he was 33 and she was 18. They broke up in 1994 around the time that Morissette was writing her third album “Jagged Little Pill”, and upon hearing the song “You Oughta Know”, which was released as the album's first single in July of 1995, actor Dave Coulier believed the song was about him. The song instantly garnered attention for its scathing, explicit lyrics.
Dave Coulier apparently said “I'm driving in Detroit and l've got my radio on, and I hear the hook for 'You Oughta Know' come on the radio and I’m like wow, this is a really cool hook. And then I start hearing the voice. I was listening to the lyrics and saying to myself oh no, I can't be this guy. As I was listening to it, I thought I must have really hurt this woman.”
Coulier had this to say about the ‘I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner’ line in the song. “We had already broken up. She called and I said, Hey, you know, l'm right in the middle of dinner, can I call you right back? When I heard the line, l was like, uh-oh.
Coulier's former television co-star Bob Saget said in one interview that he was present when Morissette made that call during dinner. However in the 2021 documentary “Jagged”, Morissette denied the song is about Coulier, despite the coincidental timing.
Other celebrities have been rumoured to be the lover in the song, including: Mike Peluso, hockey player for the New Jersey Devils; Matt LeBlanc, the actor who appeared in the video for Morissette's single "Walk Away" in 1991; and Leslie Howe, a musician and the producer of Morissette's first two albums in the early 1990s.”