Olivia Rodrigo regrets dating certain people after debut album

Olivia Rodrigo "dated people [she] shouldn't have" after releasing her debut album.

The 20-year-old singer enjoyed huge success with her 2021 album Sour — but Olivia subsequently struggled to deal with the outside "pressure".

Speaking to the New York Times newspaper, she shared: "I had such a desire to live and experience things and make mistakes and grow after Sour came out, I kind of felt this pressure to be this girl that I thought everyone expected me to be. And I think because of that pressure, maybe I did things that maybe I shouldn't have — dated people I shouldn't have."

Olivia — who didn't name names in the interview — is poised to release her eagerly-awaited new album, Guts, in September.

The chart-topping star described the new record as "reckoning with those feelings and coming out of that disillusionment and realising the core of who I am and what I want to be doing and who I want to be spending my time with".

Meanwhile, Olivia previously described becoming a global star amid the Covid-19 lockdown as a "blessing in disguise".

The drivers license hitmaker thinks lockdown actually helped her to come to terms with her own fame.

Olivia — who previously dated Adam Faze and Zack Bia — told the BBC: "It helped me keep my sanity when there was so much drama going on. Being in isolation with people I loved and cared about kept me out of the hullabaloo."

Olivia also admitted to being "much happier" than when she wrote Sour.

She said: "I am so much happier than I was when I wrote all of those songs!

"But it's also really cool that I made something out of those feelings. And now I get to look back at them and be like, 'Ha-ha! I didn't know anything!'"

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