Avril Lavigne Died in 2003, Was Replaced By Look-Alike, Hilarious Conspiracy Theory Claims

by Tyler Johnson at May 17, 2017 10:45 am. Updated at May 17, 2017 3:14 pm. You may know Avril Lavigne as the Canadian Hot Topic aficionado who married the Nickelback guy and did a lot of unintentionally comedic sneering in the early 2000s. But if you're prone to believing social media conspiracy theories started by people with names like @givenchyass, then you'll soon think of the self-proclaimed punk princess in a very different light ... ... as a corpse! Always Avril Yes, thanks to a remarkably detailed tweet thread outlining this theory, the buzz on Twitter this week is that Avril committed suicide in 2003. Celebrity Gossip: THG Week in Review Play Video Her death, according to the #DeadAvrilTruthers, was then covered up by greedy record company execs. So who's been belting out all those jams about Sk8r bois and rocking those ironic neckties? Well, according to @givenchyass, a body double named Melissa Vandella has been masquerading as Avril for the past 14 years. Yes, Ms. Ass claims that Lavigne hired Vandella early in her career to do appearances on her behalf and generally help her cope with the pressures of fame. "She was so used to being able to live a normal life and now that she was famous, she couldn't handle the paparazzi," the conspiracy tweeter writes. So, the story goes, Avril did what any skittish overnight celeb would do, and hired a doppelganger: