“When You’re Gone” singer Avril Lavigne is truly testing the patience of her adoring tween audience by scrapping one Pop/Punk show after another, reports People.com.  

Ticket holders in San Diego and Phoenix were the first to bear the brunt of the hasty decision last week, and on Saturday the French-Canadian idol revealed her plans to postpone 6 more gigs.

“My sincerest apologies to all of my fans,” Lavigne declared in a statement released Saturday. “My intention was to complete the rest of the tour, but tonight at sound check in Anaheim I realized this wasn’t possible.”

Despite the fact that she has been resting her voice “for days” due to alleged acute laryngitis, the songbird is unable to produce a peep.

On Monday refunds began to circulate for eighty-sixed performances in Santa Barbara, Anaheim and San Jose, as well as those slated for Universal City, Spokane and Everett, Wash.

Although medical  reasons are most likely to blame, several days ago - after the San Diego cancelation - an avid Perez Hilton reader let slip a nasty little secret that may come back to bite Lavigne in the a$$.

Here’s what Jeff, the insider, had to say:

“Avril and Boys Like Girls (Avril’s support band) played here (in Vegas) last night at the Palms…yesterday afternoon (at a private performance before the big show) the lead singer of Boys Like Girls - Martin Johnson - said, ‘We (he and Avril) got so wasted last night in her suite.’”

“He told us how she (Avril) had a bowling alley in her suite and that they ‘went shot (alcohol) for shot all night long,’” Jeff continued. “Even at the show last night, in front of her very young audience, she claimed that she was ‘hung-over’ from drinking so much the night before. I think that is one of the many reasons she bucked the San Diego show…”

Scandalous!

Kind of makes the whole “laryngitis” excuse sound a lot less plausible, eh?

~Carolyn French~