12 interesting facts about Avril Lavigne
- Avril's first music video, Complicated, cost over a million dollars.
- Avril's debut album Let Go went 6x platinum.
- Avril dropped out of school at grade 11.
- Avril Lavigne released her song Girlfriend with choruses in different languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, and Japanese.
- Avril appeared topless on the front cover of the Blender magazine's June 2007 edition, but she was not happy with it because she wanted it darker.
- Avril wrote a song for her grandpa who passed away. The song, called Slipped Away, is on her second album Under My Skin.
- Avril Lavigne once admitted to never having heard of The Sex Pistols.
- In 2004, Avril was at the center of a row with bosses at MTV after she stuck her middle finger up live on air on Total Request Live.
- Avril Lavigne started playing guitar when she was about 10 years old.
- Avril Lavigne has one dog, a miniature schnauzer named Sam.
- The origins of Avril's name are French: Avril means April; La means The; Vigne means Vine.
- The first magazine to have Avril Lavigne on its cover was What magazine.
