Olivia Rodrigo‘s no-following rule on Instagram significantly backfired at one level.
Showing on the Tonight Present Thursday night time (Dec. 7), the 20-year-old pop star lastly defined why she doesn’t comply with anybody else on her account, which has 35 million followers. “I attempt to comply with zero individuals as a result of it helps me be off of my telephone, you already know, off of social media,” she informed host Jimmy Fallon.
However even the perfect laid plans can have unintended penalties. “I had this very embarrassing encounter as soon as the place I used to be stalking my ex, as one does,” she confessed. “Sue me, sorry. And I by chance adopted him ’trigger I used to be stalking him. And I used to be simply following one particular person so it was tremendous apparent that I used to be following him.”
After one among her associates breathlessly ran in from the opposite room to tell Olivia of the error, issues took a flip for the more serious. “I went to open the Instagram app, and the second I opened the app, my telephone died!” Rodrigo continued, incomes surprised laughs from the viewers. “I couldn’t discover the charger so I used to be simply following my ex for some time.”
The “Vampire” singer’s cease by the Tonight Present comes three nights forward of her upcoming return to Saturday Night time Reside, the place she’ll function musical visitor on this weekend’s Adam Driver-hosted episode. She beforehand sang “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U” on the present in 2021, in one of many first-ever dwell performances of her profession.
And although she didn’t specify which ex was the recipient of her unintended comply with, Rodrigo’s followers are satisfied it’s her former Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Sequence costar Joshua Bassett. Some declare to recollect the second she was solely following the “Lie, Lie, Lie,” singer in July of 2022.
“Folks had been like, ‘Oh my gosh, she’s hacked!’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, you guys, be secure! Two-factor authentication, you guys,’” Rodrigo joked to Fallon. “I’ve a finsta now, so I’m secure.” The singer additionally talked about her sophomore GUTS album being nominated for six Grammy awards — she stated she and her mother used to make their very own hand-written ballots for every year’s present when she was a child — and the time Fallon made her mother’s life when he hugged her at a celebration.
Fallon additionally busted out the album cowl and a snippet of the lovable Christmas track Rodrigo wrote when she was 5 (“The Bels”) and a photograph of her pop star-themed sixth party, proof, she joked, that she “manifested” her profession.
See Olivia Rodrigo on the Tonight Present above.
