Olivia Rodrigo paid for her entire band and crew to have therapy both on and off their last tour.
The singer’s guitarist Daisy Spencer revealed she provided free mental health support for the entire team during the GUTS world tour, which ran from February 2024 until the final show in Manchester earlier this month.
The 31-year-old joined the Vampire singer onstage alongside fellow guitarist Emily Rosenfield, bassist Moa Munoz, drummer Hayley Brownell, and keyboardist Camila Mora on the GUTS tour.
Spencer called the 22-year-old “literally the dreamiest boss ever” and said it was “unheard of” that everyone could have “accessible and free” therapy across the 102 shows they played in multiple continents.
“On the 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 at the end of last month.
“I have never had anything like that. And that reignited the importance of therapy to me because I had just kind of fallen off for so long.”
Spencer, who has been a touring musician since she was 17, went on: “And then suddenly I had this free resource of incredible therapists, and I utilised the c**p out of that.
“I was going, you know, once a week, once every other week, whenever I could. And it was even during the off time, we also still had access to this resource.”
She added: “So honestly, that was one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour. It’s not very heard of. It was the coolest thing ever.”
The mental health charity Mind previously reported that people in the music industry are “more prone to mental health problems than the general population”, with musicians being “up to three times more likely to suffer from depression”.
Financial pressures, isolation, lifestyle, hectic schedules and addiction were named as factors in research carried out in 2023.
The revelation of Rodrigo’s kind gesture comes after she took Glastonbury by storm with her headline set.
The Drivers Licence singer brought out The Cure frontman Robert Smith to perform his band’s songs Friday I’m In Love and Just Like Heaven last week.
At the end of Just Like Heaven, she hugged the 66-year-old indie goth star, before saying, “give it up for Robert Smith you guys”, adding she was “so honoured to play with him tonight”.
Days earlier, Rodrigo performed at 2025 British Summer Time Hyde Park and brought out Ed Sheeran as a special guest.
She took a brief pause from performing some of her biggest hits to introduce Sheeran to the stage for a duet version of his 2011 song, The A Team.
He later called her “one of the brightest stars of the next generation”.
