Avril Lavigne reveals she wrote Kelly Clarkson’s hit song “Breakaway”

American singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne has revealed that she wrote fellow singer Kelly Clarkson’s song “Breakaway” almost twenty years ago.

The singer revealed this on Thursday in an episode of Kelly Clarkson Show. She said,

“Okay so I wrote this song, and recorded it for my first album. I did not use it, it went to Kelly, and she slayed. She did an incredible job with it.” (sic)

She continued,
“I wrote this song at a very young age, I was leaving my small town, went to the city and took a chance, I took a leap of faith on my career – it was like, a very scary thing. Leaving my world behind and taking a chance, was what this song was written about.” 

The singer also discussed about other things including the irony of Lavigne meeting her boyfriend, Mod Sun, a couple days after writing the titular song on her recently released album “Love Sux”.

“How funny is that?” the Grammy Award-nominated artist told Clarkson. “I went into the studio and I’m literally like, ‘Okay, here’s where I’m at. I’m over love, I need a hot minute, I’m jaded on love right now.’ I wrote that song, ‘Love Sux,’ and that set the tone for this album. Yeah… and then a couple days later, I had a boyfriend.”

The pair collaborated on the track “Flames,” which was released in January last year, and Lavigne told PEOPLE a few months later in April, they “had an immediate connection from the first day in the studio.”