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ALANIS Morissette risked sparking a war of words with Ben Affleck while discussing their former working relationship on Wednesday evening.

The Canadian star was entertaining fans during the third of four scheduled appearances at Inglewood’s YouTube Theatre when she recalled starring with Affleck in 1999 film Dogma.

Morissette, 52, had a cameo role as God in director Kevin Smith’s light-hearted comedy about two fallen angels who hatch an audacious plan to find their way back to heaven.

And she claimed Affleck, 54, who took a starring role as hapless angel Barnaby, wasn’t entirely convinced by her portrayal of the Almighty.

“I’ve even had a guy ask me why I didn’t lead with my sexuality,” she told fans during Wednesday’s show. “Thank you, Ben Affleck.”

The monologue ended with an appropriately chosen scene from the film, during which Barnaby’s head explodes following a confrontation with Morissette’s God.

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Dogma – a box office hit following its 1999 release – also features Affleck’s close friend Matt Damon, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Jason Mewes and Chris Rock.

Morissette was onstage after bringing her hugely successful Butterfly with a Machete residency to California for a four night run following an earlier two week stay in Las Vegas.

Addressing fans, the singer also claimed she’d been ‘harshly judged’ by critics throughout her lengthy career and had endured numerous personal attacks.

“… about my songs,” she added. “About my body, about how I look, about how I think, about how I feel, about my value system, about my weight.

“About how feral I am, about how feral I live, about my approach to parenting, about my approach to education, my approach to freaking anything.”

The singer went on to claim she had been rebuffed by a Hollywood star after turning to him for help.

“I did call Johnny Depp at one point, and his response was, ‘Why are you calling me?’” she said.

The show comes after Morissette discussed her pansexuality – an attraction to people regardless of their gender identity – during an appearance on the Handsome podcast.

The singer sat down with hosts lesbian comedians Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster, and non-binary screenwriter Mae Martin.

While pushing for when her next big hit will be released, Fortune admitted: “I’m sorry for the men that hurt you, but I’m not sorry for the songs that came from it.

“Did it make you want to be a lesbian at any point?”

Leaving the hosts taken aback, she replied: “I’m pansexual, so yeah.”

Rapper Nikki Minaj said President Donald Trump has “changed the energy of the country” as she joined him at a Michigan rally to stump for Republicans ahead of the nationwide midterm elections.

“He’s given us a future to look forward to,” she said, after Trump praised her figure and called her on stage to speak.

Minaj has called herself Trump’s “number one fan” despite criticising some of his policies in his first term.

In Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is locked in a tight race with Republican Mike Rogers with just over a week to go before the midterms. Former President Barack Obama held a rally – one of the first in this cycle – with the Democrat on Saturday.

Democrats are also aggressively hitting the campaign trail, with close elections taking place on 3 November which will decide which party controls Congress for the rest of Trump’s presidency.

In his remarks on Sunday, Trump focused on El-Sayed’s Muslim faith and background, alleging that he will “invite jihadists” into America if he wins.

El-Sayed has criticised similar remarks by Trump as Islamophobic, saying in an ad to voters last week that the US president “thinks he can use my name and my faith to distract us from the suffering his policies are inflicting on us at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor’s office”.

In Port Huron on Sunday, Minaj, wearing a gold-coloured Gucci-branded suit, led the crowd in chanting Trump’s name, and the names of Republican candidates in Michigan.

“We really need all these great people to be elected, because this is a major turning point for our country,” she said.

“She never looked more beautiful,” Trump said as she left the stage. “She gets it. She’s smart,” he added.

Earlier in his speech, Trump praised the rear end of one male Republican candidate before turning the crowd’s attention to Minaj.

“By the way, I looked at a beautiful ass before,” he segued. “Nikki Minaj. That’s hard to miss.”

He then asked her to “stand up” as the crowd cheered, and added that he hoped she was not “insulted” by his remark.