United Kingdom, June 28 -- Alanis Morissette uses Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to help manage her menopause symptoms.

The 52-year-old singer said the menopause feels like a "truth serum", and she has turned to HRT, which replaces oestrogen and progesterone that the body produces less of during that stage of life, as it helps to relieve symptoms, including hot flushes, brain fog, and mood swings.

Alanis told The Sunday Times Style Magazine: "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 ...