Olivia Rodrigo Pays for Her Entire Crew To See Therapists While on Tour: “I Have Never Had Anything Like That”

Olivia Rodrigo knows the importance of mental health. During an appearance on The StageLeft Podcast, Daisy Spencer, the singer‘s touring guitarist, revealed that Rodrigo pays for her band and crew to see therapists while on tour.

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“On the Guts World Tour, Olivia and our tour manager, Marty Hom, made accessible and free therapy for all of the touring personnel,” Spencer said. “I have never had anything like that.”

“That reignited the importance of therapy to me,” she added. “I had just kind of fallen off for so long, and then suddenly I had this free resource of incredible therapists, and I utilized the crap out of that.”

Spencer continued by calling the free therapy “one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour.”

 “Seriously, one of the best things you can give to people is accessible free therapy, because it can get kind of expensive,” she noted.

As for the impact therapy has had on her life, Spencer said, “I’m doing baby Daisy a good justice of finally getting to hear baby Daisy’s story of what they were going through when I was younger and everything.”

“It’s been a gift for real. I feel like it is such a gift to be able to look within yourself and have someone else help you bring some stuff out of you that you might otherwise on your own not be able to get there,” she said. “That’s the gift that therapy has given to me, is that I am able to really flesh out some stuff from my childhood that that needed a voice.”

Olivia Rodrigo on How Therapy Helps Her

During a 2021 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Rodrigo, whose dad is a therapist, opened up about the importance of therapy in her life.

“I hadn’t really started going until I was 16, and that was a really big, life-changing moment, and I’ve learned so much about myself,” she said. “Sometimes people are like, ‘Oh, you don’t need that, you have so much, your life is so great, what are your problems?’”

“I think that’s definitely a thing that sometimes older people can do to younger people, too, is kind of trivialize what they’re going through just because they’re like, ‘Eh, they’re fine, they’re just kids, they’ll get through it,’” Rodrigo added. “But it feels so real when you’re in it, and it’s so valid, and just because it’s not an adult problem or you don’t have to pay taxes yet or whatever doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.”

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