Olivia Rodrigo was mistaken for a criminal and interrogated by police while on tour: ‘I’m freaking out’
“I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna be let into America.’ Like, I’m so scared. I’m having a panic attack.”
Olivia Rodrigo is opening up her first-ever run-in with the law.
The “Favorite Crime” singer revealed on Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show that she was interrogated by police for at least 30 minutes after being mistaken for a criminal named Olivia Rodriguez while traveling from Canada to the United States as part of her Guts World Tour.
“We were at border control, I give them my passport, and they’re like, ‘OK, whatever,’” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “And they knock on the door and they’re like, ‘We need Olivia.’”
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At the time, Rodrigo thought that it was going to be a friendly encounter. “I’m like, ‘I just played a few shows; maybe, like, their daughter wants an autograph,’” she recalled. “And I come out, it’s 3 a.m. and I’m delirious, and they take me to a room — and it’s an interrogation room, and there’s like, a big cop with a gun. And he’s like, ‘Have you ever been arrested?'”
Rodrigo, naturally, went into panic mode. “I’m, like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested,’” she explained. “He’s like, ‘Are you sure?’ I’m like gaslighting myself, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, maybe I was arrested and I didn’t know it.’”
The officer then decided to put on a little more pressure on Rodrigo. “He scared me. He said, ‘You know, you could go to jail for lying to a federal officer like this. Like, this is really bad,’” she said. “I’m freaking out. I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna be let into America.’ I’m so scared. I’m having a panic attack.”
It wasn’t until 30 minutes into their interrogation that the officer asked to clarify her name. When she spelled it out for him, he replied, “‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you, that’s your same age, that’s been arrested multiple times, and her name’s Olivia Rodriguez.’”
Rodrigo did not find the connection funny. “Jimmy, I was pissed,” she exclaimed. “I’m like, ‘You didn’t look at the name on the thing? You’ve been interrogating me for 30 minutes!’”
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Thankfully, the crisis was averted and Rodrigo was able to safely enter the country and keep the show on the road.
Fallon, however, took a moment to issue a lighthearted warning to the real criminal who may still be out there somewhere. “Olivia Rodriguez, if you’re watching, be careful,” he joked. “That’s the moral of the story — be careful. Stay away from Canada.”
Watch Rodrigo discuss being mistaken for Rodriguez in the clip above.
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