Alanis Morissette 2007
 In April 2006, MTV News reported that Morissette would reprise her role in The Exonerated in London from May 23 through the May 28.
Rolling Stone reported in January 2006 that Morissette was in between intense writing sessions for her upcoming studio album, which was to be co-produced by Mike Elizondo, and that she was going to spend 2006 working on a memoir. She said of her book, it will be all the wisdom I've accrued in the thirty-one years of my life [...] A lot about relationships, fame, travel, body-image issues, spirit — with a lot of self-deprecating humor peppered throughout, 'cause I just can't help it. 2006 marked the first year in the recorded history of Morissette's musical career that she had not a single concert appearance showcasing her own songs, with the exception of an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in January when she performed Wunderkind. During this period, she delved back into acting, guest starring in an episode of Lifetime's Lovespring International and three episodes of FX's Nip/Tuck, playing a lesbian. In October 2006, Morissette said in an interview with TV Guide that she was going to start writing new material over the next few weeks, saying I usually fill two journals for each record and at the present, I have seven journals full. I have a lot within me ready to burst out.
In June 2006, People magazine reported that Morissette had split from her fianc?, Ryan Reynolds, but neither party confirmed the report. The following month, a source said that they were together, Contact Music reported that their split was a rumor, and they were pictured holding hands in Los Angeles. In February 2007, representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced that they had mutually decided to end their engagement.
On April 1, 2007, Morissette released a parody of The Black Eyed Peas' My Humps, which she recorded in a slow, mournful voice and accompanied only by a piano. The accompanying YouTube-hosted video, in which she dances provocatively with a group of men and hits the ones who attempt to touch her lady lumps, had received nearly five million views by April 13. Morissette did not take any interviews to explain the song. It was theorized that Morissette herself did it as an April Fools' Day joke. Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie responded by sending Morissette a buttocks-shaped cake with an approving note. By July 2007, the video had reached the top forty on YouTube's list of the most viewed videos of all time, having garnered more than eight million hits.
Morissette singing the national anthems at the Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4, 2007On June 4, 2007, Morissette performed the The Star-Spangled Banner and O Canada, the American and Canadian national anthems, in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Ottawa Senators and the Anaheim Ducks in Ottawa, Ontario.
It was released on Morissette's website that she will be starring in a film adaptation of Philip K Dick's novel Radio Free Albemuth. Morissette will play Sylvia, an ordinary woman in unexpected remission from lymphoma. I am a big fan of Philip K. Dick's poetic and expansively imaginative books, Morissette said. I feel blessed to portray Sylvia, and to be part of this story being told in film.
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