“It could be worse,” Lavigne said.
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“I mean, it’s just funny to me,” the 39-year-old told Cooper.

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Other people are like, ‘There’s a conspiracy theory that I’m not me.'"
Cooper, however, disagreed.
“Avril, this conspiracy theory about you is a little creepy, come on,” Cooper said.
But Lavigne replied: “I don’t know, it could be worse.
Obviously I am me.
It’s so dumb.”
the singer-songwriter said she felt that the host might actually believe the rumors.
“I knew you half believed it!”
Lavigne said, laughing.
“You haven’t aged, I’m staring at you,” Cooper said.
“You literally look the same from when you were younger.”
In a2019 interview withEntertainment Weekly, Lavigne had a similar reaction when asked about the theory.
“It’s just a dumb internet rumor and [I’m] flabbergasted that people bought into it.
Isn’t that so weird?
It’s so dumb,” Lavigne said at the time.
“And I look the exact same.
I think I was about to die because I had this weird feeling of, ‘Whoa.
“Coming out of it I felt like I was underwater drowning, coming up for air.