Olivia Rodrigo recalls ‘freaking out’ in interrogation at border after being mistaken for criminal

The Grammy-winning singer said she was mistaken for a criminal named Olivia Rodriguez.

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo arrives at the premiere of “Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour” in Los Angeles on Friday. Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP

Olivia Rodrigo was interrogated at the Canadian border after she was mistaken for a criminal, she told Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s episode of the “The Tonight Show.”

When Fallon asked Rodrigo, 21, about her Guts world tour, she recounted getting “in trouble with the law for the first time” and said it was definitely not her favorite crime.

“We were going from Canada to, like, Portland or something,” she recalled. “We were at border control, I give them my passport, and they’re like, ‘OK, whatever.’ And they knock on the door and they’re like, ‘We need Olivia.'”

Rodrigo assumed the officer wanted an autograph for their daughter, so she got off the bus. She said she was escorted to an interrogation room around 3 a.m. while “delirious.” There, she was met with a “big cop with a gun” who asked whether she’d ever been arrested.

“I’m, like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested,'” she said. “He’s like, ‘Are you sure?’ I’m, like, gaslighting. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, maybe I was, like, arrested and I didn’t know it.'”

Rodrigo said she was “freaking out” when the officer warned her that she could go to jail for lying to a federal agent.

But after 30 minutes more of interrogation, the officer realized he may have had the wrong Olivia.

“He goes, ‘What’s your name?’ And I go, ‘Olivia Rodrigo. R-O-D-R-I-G-O,'” she said. “And he’s like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you that’s your same age that’s been arrested multiple times, and her name is Olivia Rodriguez.'”

As Fallon and the crowd laughed at the brutal reveal, Rodrigo exclaimed, “Jimmy, I’m pissed!”

Rodrigo’s Guts tour continues in March in South America before it wraps up in England in the summer. So far, she has played 95 shows across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. A Netflix special called “Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour” premiered Tuesday.

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