Alanis Morissette, 52, reveals she relies on HRT to overcome menopause as she says she's 'embraced' getting older with 'humour'

has revealed she relies on HRT to manage her symptoms, as she shared insight into her views on getting older in the industry.

The hitmaker, 52, said she's 'embraced' ageing with 'humour' after fleeing due to its focus on women maintaining their young looks.

Speaking in a new interview, Alanis described going through the menopause as being like a 'truth serum,' and like many women she uses hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to manage the symptoms.

The treatment replaces hormones the body is no longer producing in sufficient amounts, and can relieve menopause symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats, brain fog and mood swings.

Speaking about the menopause itself, Alanis said: 'The procreative imperative keeps me ooey-gooey, then when that goes away I'm in my authentic truth.

'The other day someone said, ''Why would you start HRT, because when you go off it in your seventies it's like you're experiencing it [menopause] for the first time?'' And my question was, who's going off it?!'

The Jagged Little Pill singer went on to tell The Sunday Times Style Magazine that she relocated from LA after struggling with pressure to look younger.

She added: 'I really had to look at this. There was grief of going from the playful maiden into the mom — it's an archetypal head spinner. I'm embracing the older woman with some ''I know too much'' humour.'

'I'm all about women doing what the f*** they need to feel right. I have zero judgment. Personally, I do the ouchy facials because, you know, I like collagen, a**holes.'

Alanis, who shares children Ever, 14, Onyx, nine, and Winter, six, with her rapper husband Mario 'Souleye' Treadway, recently shared rare insight into motherhood.

Speaking to E! News, she said: 'Archetypically, ''Mom'' is number one for me and ''writer'' is number two, so for that to be marked tonight, it really warms my heart.'

Since to her rise to fame with her hit album Jagged Little Pill in the 90s, Alanis has spoken about how the pressures of fame left her battling panic attacks, depression and sex addiction.

Speaking to Event Magazine in 2018, she said: 'It's taken a lot of work and therapy to just not be suicidal. There's been a little PTSD I've had to work through over the years.

'I had no one, apart from a couple of therapists who I would phone from the road, desperately, at three in the morning.

'No, it wasn't fun. I just kept looking down. It was one foot in front of the other.'

Speaking about the album and its hit track You Oughta Know, Alanis has previously shared it was a tough sell to bosses to include on the album.

She told the Talk Easy With Sam Fragoso podcast: 'Nobody wanted 'You Oughta Know' first. They were terrified of that song. 

'And I remember [thinking] at the time that I would much rather come out being maybe misinterpreted, maybe reduced – maybe there's some triggering going on – but we're starting on a note that is intense.'