Olivia Rodrigo is probably going nonetheless on a sugar excessive after wrapping up her sold-out 95-show Guts world tour. So, naturally, on Tuesday night time (Oct. 29) when she visited the Tonight Present, host Jimmy Fallon requested her to speak about two of the wildest issues that occurred to her on the highway.
After holding up a replica of the Touring Difficulty of Billboard journal with Rodrigo on the quilt, Fallon dug proper in on the singer’s intense highway run-in with some border cops. “I obtained in bother with the legislation for the primary time in my life,” Rodrigo admitted. “We had been going from Canada to, like, Portland or one thing. We had been at border management, I give them my passport, and so they’re like, ‘OK, no matter.’ And so they knock on the door and so they’re like, ‘We’d like Olivia.’”
Pondering it is perhaps a border agent wanting an autograph for his or her daughter, Rodrigo got here out of her bus at 3 a.m. to see what the issue was. “I’m delirious, and so they take me to a room—and it’s an interrogation room, and there’s like, a giant cop [with] a gun,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘Have you ever ever been arrested?’ I’m, like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested.’ He’s like, ‘Are you positive?’ I’m like gaslighting [myself]. I’m, like, Oh, my God, perhaps I used to be, like, arrested and I didn’t realize it,” she stated breathlessly.
After being warned she might go to jail for mendacity to a federal officer, Rodrigo stated she began to freak out, worrying she wouldn’t be let again into the U.S. “Like, I’m so scared. I’m, like, having a panic assault,” she stated. After a 30-minute interrogation, the border agent checked out her once more and requested her to spell her final identify. “[I said] ‘Olivia Rodrigo, like, R, O, D, R, I, G, O,’ And he’s, like, ‘Oh, there’s a woman who seems similar to you, that’s your identical age, that’s been arrested a number of instances, and her identify’s Olivia Rodriguez.’”
Fallon additionally requested Rodrigo, 21, to run down some highlights of the tour, which she stated included going to the Philippines for the primary time, which was particular for her resulting from her Filipino heritage. “Yeah, it was so particular and everybody was so nice. [And] such good singers!,” she stated, remembering how her followers there sang all her lyrics again to her completely on pitch and in key.
Jimmy additionally simply needed to carry up one of the vital embarrassing moments from the tour, a mishap in Melbourne, Australia the place Olivia went crashing by way of a lure door within the stage. After taking part in the clip of Rodrigo dealing with the trip-and-fall like a professional, the singer stated it was really “actually scary. Watching the video again is fairly terrifying. I imply, present should go on, that’s showbiz, child.”
That stated, Rodrigo stated it was really form of a “stunning” accident in hindsight as a result of she had simply been within the Philippines and she or he’d been interested by her household and heritage and after getting shaken up by the autumn she went to the hospital to verify she hadn’t sustained a concussion. Whereas there, she was handled by a Filipino nurse who had the identical identify because the singer’s grandpa, who handed earlier this 12 months.
“And so I used to be like ‘wow that was him looking for me,’” she stated. “Ensuring I didn’t get damage and so I’m actually comfortable it occurred. I feel it’s an attractive story.”
Rodrigo additionally plugged her new Netflix live performance particular Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour and caught round to play a enjoyable sport of “What’s Behind Me.”
Watch Rodrigo on The Tonight Present under.