Jane Mag Interview!

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Avril married her own neo-punk guy last July: Deryck Whibley, a fellow Canadian and the lead singer for Sum 41. But instead of rocking her typical Hot Topic style, she wore a Vera Wang dress and walked down a Montecito, Calif., aisle just like countless Hollywood rich kids. The tabloids had a heyday, saying she wasn't being true to herself.

"I wanted to be like, 'Oh, let's totally have a rock 'n' roll, goth wedding.' But at the same time I was like, 'I've been dreaming about my wedding day since I was a little girl. I have to wear the white dress.' I wanted to be a princess, okay?" Avril says, laughing. "People thought I would have done, like, some black wedding dress, and yeah, I would have. But at the same time I was thinking about our pictures, and I wanted—like, that's why I have this ring—I wanted to be in style." She holds up the hugest Barbie-dream-bauble diamond ring ever. "It's a classic. I didn't want to be, like, 20 years later, 'Oh, why did I wear my hair like that? It's not cool now.'"

I ask Avril about an old Playboy interview in which Deryck said,

"When I'm coming down from coke, I can't be alone for some reason."

"He doesn't do drugs," Avril jumps in. "Clearly, he used to, because he talked about it, but I wouldn't be with someone who did, and I made that very clear to him when we first started dating. I've never done coke in my life, and I'm proud of that. Oh my God! I could never. I am 100 percent against drugs."

"Do you ever get paranoid that groupies are throwing themselves at Deryck when he's on tour?" I ask.

"No, we have a really good, strong relationship. There's a lot of trust. I know how much I mean to him, and..." Avril pauses, then smiles and says, "I'm the best thing that's ever happened to him."