Olivia Rodrigo has been on her Guts Tour (What tour? The world tour) since early 2024, but she’s now in the final stretch with about a half dozen shows left, unless and until more dates are announced. When she kicked things off, Olivia introduced the launch of her Fund 4 Good, a nonprofit to support reproductive rights, and confirmed that some of the Guts proceeds would go to the fund. To me, that really set the spirit of the tour in the best way possible. Well, turns out the fund is not the only bit of good will Olivia has generated with this tour: her guitarist Daisy Spencer just revealed on a podcast that Olivia has ensured that free therapy is available to everyone in her band and crew, if and whenever they need it. For Daisy, the gift of therapy has been priceless:
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.”
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 needed a voice,” she continued.
Towards the end of the podcast, Spencer called Rodrigo “Literally is the dreamiest boss of all time.”
I love this so much. There are some things I think the younger generations just get so well, and one of them is mental healthcare. Correct me if I’m wrong, but to me young people have a pretty clear, stigma-free understanding of therapy being just like any other healthcare, including just as necessary. Of course Olivia’s father being a therapist was likely an influential factor! Still, it’s noticeable the way certain artists are so generously taking care of their touring families. There’s Olivia providing access to free therapy, and I’m also thinking of those huge bonuses Taylor Swift gave her Eras personnel, down to the truckers. It wasn’t even the winter holidays when she did it! I know some music business managers, and they were in a state of near panic when Taylor did that, like, “Oh God, is this going to be the new normal?!” But you know what, it should be! And I love that forward-thinking ladies are leading the way. It’s nice to know that while Olivia was hanging out with giants like Pesto the penguin and David Byrne, she was also taking care of her people. Now I just have to figure out how to convince Olivia she needs a triangle player for her next tour, so I can get in on that gratis therapy! (Heaven knows I need it, sigh…)
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love her. when she brought out Robert Smith at Glastonbury I gasped I was so happy.
Everything I hear about her makes me like her more.
Honestly Olivia just seems like SUCH a good egg. I’m always wishing her the best!!!
Olivia also talked about getting therapy after her fame blew up suddenly. It is so nice to see these young artists to try to make things better. It is such a small gesture to provide free therapy for your tour crew, but a lot of people especially in entertainment business really need this. Miley talked about the high you get while performing, then chasing that high outside the stage, one of the reasons she doesn’t want to tour anymore. It wouldn’t be any different for people sharing that stage with the headliner.
This just confirms my opinion of her, she seems lovely.