Olivia Rodrigo's guitarist shares singer paid for therapy costs for her entire touring crew
Olivia Rodrigo's guitarist revealed that the pop star paid for the therapy of her entire GUTS touring crew.
Daisy Spencer, a guitarist for Rodrigo, spoke about the perk she was able to enjoy for the duration of the tour, even when they weren't actively performing.
"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 on The StageLeft Podcast.
“I have never had anything like that,” she said.
Spencer said that it was one of the helpful ways to navigate the tour, especially since you will interact and work with the crew throughout.
“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.”
Spencer said that receiving free therapy was "one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour."
"Like, seriously, that is one of the best things you can give to people is accessible free therapy, because it can get kind of expensive," she continued.
She further detailed how having access to free therapy helped her process life happenings, both in the past and present.
"It opened up a lot of old wounds for me, like a lot of unprocessed traumas," she said, noting how she's been doing touring gigs since she was 17.
"At 31, I feel like 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 continued.
"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, like 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 needed a voice," she added.
Later in the podcast, Spencer said Rodrigo "is the dreamiest boss of all time.”
"I feel like she just has handled the upward trajectory of her career in the most amazing way that most human beings wouldn’t be able to do,” she added. “She’s done it so gracefully, and so effortlessly.”
Rodrigo previously opened up that she has been seeing a therapist since she was 16, saying that it has helped her to learn more about herself.
"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 in her 2021 interview.
"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," she continued, adding, "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."
