Talk about pop punk royalty.
Lavigne fulfilled the Sum 41 frontman at a bar when she was simply 17 years of ages. “I made out with him the first day I met him,” she informed Rolling Stone in2011 “He gave me my first shot of Jäger. I had a tie on—it was back in the days of the tie.”
But the Canadian set didn’t start dating up until 2 years later on, with Lavigne even inking her love for the vocalist on her body, tattooing a little pink heart surrounding the letter “D.” Lavigne and Whibley got wed at a personal estate in Montecito, Calif., in July 2006, where they shared their very first dance to the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris.”
But a lot for their delighted ending: Lavigne declared divorce in October2009 A source informed E! News at the time that the couple had actually been “growing apart for months. They have become more like business partners rather than husband and wife.”
When revealing their separation, Lavigne composed on her site, “We have been friends since I was 17, started dating when I was 19, and married when I was 21. I am grateful for our time together, and I am grateful and blessed for our remaining friendship.”
The duo went on to work together on Lavigne’s 2011 album, “Goodbye Lullaby,” though Whibley did lawfully eliminate “Lavigne” from his complete name after including the appellation when they got married.
