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Paul Brannigan

"Fans would talk s**t about Avril to me. I got a lot of negativity and backlash": Sum 41's Deryck Whibley on the unexpected challenges thrown up by his six-and-a-half year relationship with Avril Lavigne

Avril and Deryck.

Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has spoken about the unexpected side effects of his marriage to, and subsequent divorce from, Avril Lavigne.

The two Canadian pop-punk stars met when Lavigne was 17 - "I made out with him the first day I met him" Lavigne once told Rolling Stone - and began dating two years later. They were married in California on July 15, 2006, but split three years later, with Lavigne citing "irreconcilable differences" in their relationship when filing for divorce in October 2009: their divorce was finalised in November 2010. 

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