Olivia Rodrigo mentioned she was mistakenly arrested by U.S. Border Patrol throughout her GUTS World Tour earlier this 12 months.
The “Favourite Crime” artist informed the story on the Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday when she was requested concerning the incident. The three-time Grammy winner was arrested on the highway after being misidentified as an Olivia Rodriquez.
“I acquired in hassle with the legislation for the primary time in my life,” Rodrigo informed Fallon across the 30-second mark of the interview.
“So we have been going from Canada to, like, Portland or one thing,” she continued. “We have been at border management. I give them my passport, they usually’re like, ‘OK, no matter.’ They usually knock on the door they usually’re like, ‘We’d like Olivia.’ And I am like, ‘Ah. I simply performed a couple of reveals. Perhaps their daughter needs an autograph.'”
However the officers weren’t followers; they wished extra details about the 21-year-old.
“And I come out, it is 3 a.m., and I am delirious. They usually take me to a room,” Rodrigo continued. “And it is an interrogation room, and there is a large cop with a gun. And he is like, ‘Have you ever ever been arrested?’ I am like, ‘No, I have not been arrested.'”
The agent requested if she was positive. “And I am, like, gaslighting myself,” Rodrigo defined. “I am like, ‘Oh, my God. Perhaps I used to be arrested and I did not understand it.'”
The cop threatened Rodrigo that she may very well be arrested for mendacity to a federal officer. The California-born singer, who’s of Filipino, Irish and German ancestry, mentioned she was “freaking out.”
“I am like, I am not gonna be let in to America! Like, I am so scared,” she recalled. “I am having a panic assault, and after half-hour of interrogation, he appears to be like at me. He goes, ‘What’s your title?’ And I’m going, ‘Olivia Rodrigo. R-O-D-R-I-G-O.’
“And he is like, ‘Oh, there is a lady who appears to be like similar to you, that is your identical age, that is been arrested a number of instances, and her title is Olivia Rodriguez.'”
Having been pulled out of her sleep on the time, Rodrigo mentioned that she was “pissed” concerning the incident—however that it was “disaster averted.”
“So, Olivia Rodriguez, if you happen to’re watching, watch out,” Fallon joked. “That is the ethical of the story. Watch out. Avoid Canada.”
Rodrigo additionally discovered time to get in contact together with her roots whereas on tour. She visited the Philippines for the primary time, the place she had “unbelievable” meals, and her viewers was “completely on key.”
Hopefully no different interrogations take Rodrigo abruptly, because the South American leg of the GUTS World Tour begins in March. The tour documentary is now obtainable to stream on Netflix.
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