- - Sarah McLachlan Says She Personally Gets ‘10 or 20 Letters a Week’ About Rescue Animals

Bailey RichardsFebruary 18, 2026 at 12:38 AM

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Sarah McLachlan says she gets "10 or 20 letters a week" about rescue animals and charities

McLachlan made the reveal about the atypical fan mail on the Feb. 17 episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast

The singer famously starred in an PSA for the ASPCA in the 2000s featuring her 1997 ballad "Angel"

Sarah McLachlan’s mail looks a little different than most celebrities.

To this day, the Canadian singer-songwriter, who famously starred in an PSA for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in the 2000s, gets multiple letters weekly about the emotional commercial, which featured her 1997 ballad "Angel.”

McLachlan, 58, discussed the impact the ad still has on her life while appearing in the Tuesday, Feb. 17, episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast after the host asked if “people assume” that the musician is “constantly fostering and adopting animals.”

“Oh yeah, you would not believe the … and also 10 or 20 letters a week about, you know, people sending me all their rescues or, ‘I’m doing this charity. I’m working with this. Can you help?’ ”

Sarah McLachlan in her ASPCA commercial

The singer also recalled an instance that demonstrates the scope of the emotional PSA, which she previously said raised millions for the non-profit.

“It took on such a life of its own,” she told Poehler, 54. “I remember I was doing a food bank charity gig in New York eight years later and they said, ‘Can you please not play “Angel,” because it's so synonymous with this other charity? There's going to be some brand confusion.’ "

Recalling her reaction in that moment, McLachlan then added, “I'm like, ‘God, are you serious?’ ”

The conversation about the singer’s famous “Angel” ad came up as she and Poehler discussed her hit track.

The song, McLachlan said on Good Hang, “has done so many things” and “helped people through individual tough situations.” The singer added that she’s heard “so many stories,” including fans telling her that “my mother played this when she was passing. It’s really helped us.”

In terms of its monetary impact, the PSA also “raised $30 million,” McLachlan said. “Well, that was within the first year, I think. So, who knows what has happened since.”

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Sarah McLachlan on the 'Good Hang with Amy Poehler' podcast

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The “Angel” singer previously reflected on the iconic ad — revealed that it left her feeling a bit misunderstood — while speaking to PEOPLE about her 2025 album Better Broken.

"I think people have an idea of who I was. Regardless of my playful, happy nature, what was portrayed was somber album covers and dark moody music,” McLachlan told PEOPLE, adding that "it surprises people when they meet me and I'm so happy and light."

"They assume I'm going to be like Sylvia Plath and reading poetry and drinking wine at midnight with candles and all dark and moody," the musician said, noting of her darker side: "I get it all out in my music.”

Speaking to the PSA specifically, McLachlan said it is "still painful," she's ultimately glad she did it, both because it “raised an incredible amount of money” for the non-profit, as well as the ribbing it inspired.

"In some ways, [it] brought me to a whole new audience,” the singer said, admitting that she loves "to poke fun at myself because I'm not a very serious person at all despite my music."

"That's just one element of me," she added. "It's created an opportunity for lots of memes and lots of poking fun, and yet it did a lot of good in the world. So, that makes me really happy."

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