Olivia Rodrigo is probably still on a low after wrapping up her sold-out 95-show Guts world tour. So, naturally, on Tuesday night (October 29) when he visited the Tonight showhost Jimmy Fallon asked her to talk about two of the craziest things that happened to her on the road.
After holding a copy of his Journal Bulletin board magazine with Rodrigo on the cover, Fallon dug right into the singer's hot streak with some border cops. “I got into trouble with the law for the first time in my life,” Rodrigo admitted. “We were going from Canada to Portland or something. We were at the border control, I give them my passport and they say, “Okay, whatever.” And they knock on the door and say, “We need Olivia.”
Thinking it might be a border agent who wanted an autograph for their daughter, Rodrigo got off her bus at 3 a.m. to see what the problem was. “I'm delirious, and they take me into a room—and it's an interrogation room, and there's like, a big policeman [with] a gun,” he recalls. “He says, 'Have you ever been arrested?' I say, “No, I wasn't arrested.” It says “Are you sure?” I'm like gas [myself]. I'm, like, oh my God, maybe I got arrested and I didn't know it,” she said, panting.
After being warned she could go to jail for lying to a federal officer, Rodrigo said she began to panic, worried she wouldn't be allowed back into the US. I'm having, like, a panic attack,” she said. After a 30-minute interrogation, the border agent looked at her again and asked her to write her last name. “[I said] “Olivia Rodrigo, like, R, O, D, R, I, G, O,” And she says, “Oh, there's a girl who looks just like you, she's your age, who's been arrested multiple times, and The her name is Olivia Rodriguez.”
Fallon also asked Rodrigo, 21, to describe some of the highlights of the tour, which she said included going to the Philippines for the first time, which was special for her because of her Filipino heritage. “Yes, it was so special and everyone was so wonderful. [And] such good singers!” she said, recalling how her fans there sang all her lines perfectly to her on the field and in the main.
Jimmy also had to mention one of the most embarrassing moments from the tour, an accident in Melbourne, Australia where Olivia crashed through a stage trap. After playing the clip of Rodrigo handling the trip and fall like a pro, the singer said it was actually “really scary. Watching the video back is pretty scary. I mean, the show must go on, that's showbiz, baby.”
That said, Rodrigo said it was actually a “beautiful” accident in hindsight because she had just been in the Philippines thinking about her family and her heritage and after being shaken up by the fall she went to the hospital to make sure she didn't suffer a concussion. . While there, he was treated by a Filipino nurse who shared the same name as the singer's grandfather, who died earlier this year.
“And so I was like, 'Wow, he was looking at me,'” she said. “To make sure I didn't get injured and so I'm very happy it happened. I think it's a beautiful story.”
Rodrigo also premiered her new concert special on Netflix Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World tour and stuck around to play a fun game of “What's Behind Me”.
Watch Rodrigo The Tonight Show below.
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