{"id":475558,"date":"2026-06-13T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475558\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:31:40","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-talks-about-being-60-deaf-in-her-left-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475558\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo Talks About Being 60% Deaf in Her Left Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere is a song called \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong With Me?\u201d on Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love<\/a> in which the singer duets with her mope rock hero, Cure singer Robert Smith, with the two lamenting a love so strong is makes them sick.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSo, naturally, during a chat with KISS FM UK\u2019s radio show<\/a> earlier this week promoting the album, she was asked, \u201cwhat is actually wrong with you?\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s quite a lot that\u2019s wrong with me,\u201d Rodrigo, 23, laughed. \u201cI\u2019m actually like, 60% deaf in my left ear. So, if you were to sit on this side of me [points to her left] and try to tell me a secret, I couldn\u2019t make out what you were saying. So if you need to tell me a secret go right ear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked what else is wrong with her, Rodrigo went with co-host Chloe Burrows\u2019 vibe and said that she also thinks \u201clying is fun. My friends love to lie to strangers at parties, or like, lie to the Uber driver and be like, \u2018Yeah, you know, I, like, go to college across the street and I\u2019m like, blah, blah, blah,’\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Rodrigo has discussed her hearing loss. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in 2023, Rodrigo described finding out about the issue during a hearing test in kindergarten when she was told, \u201c\u2018Oh, you\u2019re a little hard of hearing.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tShe seems to have taken it in stride, though, telling the mag that her friend, photographer Petra Collins, has bad vision, \u201cso we always joke that I make music because I have bad hearing and she takes photos because she has bad vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> for the second night of a two-night stand on Thursday (June 11) to perform the world premiere of the new album track \u201cStupid Song,\u201d playing the moody ballad on the piano before being joined by a full band for the urgent tune\u2019s up-tempo second half. The singer is gearing up to launch the 65-date\u00a0Unraveled Tour<\/a>, which will hit arenas for multiple night stands in North America, Europe and the U.K. this fall and winter, kicking off on Sept. 25 show at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Conn.<\/p>\n


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