Olivia Rodrigo has made a shocking revelation regarding her hearing. The stateside songstress stunned presenters Tyler West and Chloe Burrows on KISS FM as she told them she is 60 per cent deaf in one ear.
As she chatted about her upcoming album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, she confessed to her hearing issues. Her admission cam as Tyler referenced her new song What’s Wrong With Me?
Asking her: “What is wrong with you?,” he was surprised with the star’s answer. She confessed: “There’s quite a lot that’s wrong with me.
“Um, actually, I am like, 60 per cent deaf in my left ear. So, if you were to sit on this side of me [points to the left] and try to tell me a secret, I couldn’t make out what you were saying.”
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And she went on: “So, if you tell me a secret, go right here [points to the right].” The confession shocked Chloe who gasped: “That is amazing because you’re a singer and you always have like headphones, like that is crazy.”
Olivia’s new album – her third to date – lets fans inside her first time being in an “adult relationship”. The singer said: “It’s me discovering what romantic love looks like in real time.
‘I’ve been in relationships before that were really exciting and tumultuous in a teenage way. But this was my first time being in a real, “big girl” relationship.”
Olivia is said to have split from famous British boyfriend Louis Partridge after a two-year romance in December. The pair started dating back in 2023.
But their relationship is said to have come to an end. At the time, a source told the press that Olivia and Louis’ friends were “shocked” to hear of their break-up, with the Driving Licence singer having made a solo appearance at Lily Allen’s Christmas party.
Opening up further on her new album’s meaning, Olivia discussed the feeling of heartbreak. When she asked if the situation ever got easier, she said: “I think it gets easier… I don’t know, talk to me in two years and maybe I’ll have gone through the worst heartbreak ever.
‘But I just feel like heartbreak will never be as bad as it was when you were 17 years old. That breakup that I went through when I was 17… oh my God, nothing will ever be that tough ever again. Hopefully! Maybe I’m speaking very naively.
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“But I do feel that with every kind of rejection – whether in love or a work thing, a friend thing or whatever – I’m taking stuff less personally as I get older. As you grow and have more experiences, it starts to feel OK.”
Despite singing about heartbreak, Olivia admitted she has already decided on her wedding song when the happy moment comes. “It’s going to be I Melt with You by Modern English, external,” she told the BBC.
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