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Olivia Rodrigo remembers being “freaked out” during interrogation at the border after being mistaken for a criminal

Olivia Rodrigo remembers being “freaked out” during interrogation at the border after being mistaken for a criminal

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

When Fallon asked the 21-year-old singer about her “Guts” world tour, she shared that it was her “first time in trouble with the law,” and it definitely wasn't her favorite crime.

“We were traveling from Canada to Portland or something,” she remembers. “We were at border control, I give them my passport and they said, 'Okay, whatever.' And they knock on the door and say, 'We need Olivia.'”

Rodrigo assumed the officer wanted an autograph for her daughter, so she got off the bus. She said she was then escorted to an interrogation room at around 3am in a state of “crazy”. There she was met by a “big policeman with a gun” who asked if she had ever been arrested.

“I'm like, 'No, I wasn't arrested,'” she said. “He asks, 'Are you sure?' I'm like gaslighting. I think, 'Oh my God, maybe I was arrested and didn't know it.'”

The Grammy-winning singer said she “freaked out” when the officer warned her that she could go to prison for lying to a federal agent.

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

“He asks, 'What's your name?' And I say 'Olivia Rodrigo,'” she said. “And he says, 'Oh, there's a girl your age who looks just like you who's been arrested multiple times, and her name is Olivia Rodriguez.'”

As Fallon and the crowd laughed at the brutal revelation, Rodrigo shouted, “Jimmy, I'm mad!”

Rodrigo's Guts tour continues in South America in March before wrapping up in England this summer. So far she has played 95 shows in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. A Netflix special titled “Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour” premiered on Tuesday.

“The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” airs on NBC, a company owned by NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News.

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