Looking back at Avril Lavigne’s relationship history

Talk about pop punk royalty.

Lavin met The amount is 41 frontman in a bar when she was only 17 years old. “I was friends with him the first day I met him,” she said Perekotifield in 2011. “He gave me my first shot of Jäger. I was wearing a tie – that was back in the days of ties.”

But the Canadian couple started dating only two years later, and Lavigne even wrote her love for the singer on her body, tattooing a small pink heart around the letter “D”. Lavigne and Whibley were married at a private estate in Montecito, California in July 2006, where they danced to music for the first time. Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris”.

But so much for their happy ending: Lavigne filed for divorce in October 2009. A source told E! At the time, it was reported that the couple had “been separated for several months. They became more like business partners than husband and wife.”

Announcing the split, Lavigne wrote on her website: “We’ve been friends since we were 17, started dating when I was 19 and married when I was 21. I’m grateful for the time we spent together, and I’m grateful and blessed that our friendship remains.”

The duo went on to collaborate on Lavigne’s 2011 album Goodbye Lullaby, although Whibley legally dropped “Lavigne” from her full name after adding the title when they married.