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Olivia Rodrigo’s guitarist Daisy Spencer revealed that Rodrigo pays for therapy for her entire band and crew
The accessible therapy extends past tour season
Rodrigo has previously spoken on how important therapy is to her – and her dad is a therapist
Olivia Rodrigo’s touring guitarist Daisy Spencer has revealed that the singer pays for her band and crew to have access to free therapy, both on and off tour.
Spencer, 31, spoke about her experience working with the Grammy winner, 22, on The StageLeft Podcast on June 30.
“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,” Spencer revealed. “And that reignited the importance of therapy to me because 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.”
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Olivia Rodrigo and guitarist Daisy Spencer (right) in June
She continued, “Honestly, that was one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour. Like, seriously, one of the best things you can give to people is accessible free therapy, because it can get kind of expensive.”
Spencer then detailed how having access to free therapy has impacted her life offstage.
“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,” she said.
“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. 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,” she continued.
Towards the end of the podcast, Spencer called Rodrigo “Literally is the dreamiest boss of all time.”
The “vampire” singer has previously been open about the importance of therapy in her own life. Her father, Chris Rodrigo, is a family therapist.
Known for her nostalgic pop-rock music that explores the growing pains of young womanhood, Rodrigo previously told CBS Sunday Morning in 2021, “A lot of people think, listening to my music, that I’m a really sad, depressed person and that couldn’t be farther from the truth.”
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“Definitely not at all crying on my bedroom floor all the time. But it’s fun to write about stuff like that — like if I was just writing about how I was happy, going to get my iced latte every morning, nobody would listen to it, it wouldn’t be interesting,” she continued at the time.
The “so american” singer’s Guts World Tour has taken her across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America from February 2024 until her current festival run, including her recent performance at Glastonbury alongside The Cure’s Robert Smith.
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