Avril Lavigne has broken her silence over an online conspiracy theory about her that claims she died in 2003.

The long-running rumor, which first gained traction in the early 2000s, claims she is a doppelganger named Melissa.

The theory claimed that Lavigne hired a body double to represent her at public events after she grew tired of being a celebrity.

Further, it was then speculated Melissa was forced to become Lavigne full-time after the singer ‘died’ at some point after the release of 2004’s Under My Skin.

“I mean, it’s just funny to me,” she told Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast.

“Like, on one end, everyone’s like, ‘You look the exact same. You haven’t aged a day.’ But then other people are like, there’s a conspiracy theory that I’m not me.”

Lavigne’s image changed drastically with the debut of 2007 single Girlfriend, which saw the singer transform from an emo teen into a pink-loving “mother f**cking princess”.

“Honestly, it’s not that bad. It could be worse, right?” Lavigne laughed off the conspiracy. “I feel like I got a good one. I don’t feel like it’s negative. It’s nothing creepy.”