Olivia Rodrigo detained by Border Patrol officials as she tried to enter United States

Pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo has revealed she was detained and interrogated by border control in the US.

While touring, the singer was nearly arrested when she tried to reenter the United States, the Disney Channel star turned chart topper said.

"I got in trouble with the law for the first time in my life," the 21-year-old confessed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Rodrigo, who, since February has been making her rounds across the globe as part of her Guts World Tour said the incident happened when she was leaving Canada.

"We were going from Canada to like, Portland, or something. We were at border control. I give them my passport and they're like, ‘OK whatever.’"

But she says things soon changed as she was confronted by armed guards.

"They knock on the door and they're like, ‘We need Olivia.’"

Having recently performed a slew of shows, Rodrigo thought someone at Border Control might have a daughter who'd like her autograph.

“I’m like, I played a few shows. Maybe their daughter wants an autograph. I come out, it's 3am and I'm delirious,” she added, saying inside waiting for her was an armed officer.

“And they take me to a room and it's an interrogation room. And there’s a big cop with a gun and he's like, ‘Have you ever been arrested?’ I'm like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested.' And he's like, ‘Are you sure?’"

Rodrigo said the officer's persistence made her start to question herself. "I'm like, ‘Oh my God, maybe I was arrested and I didn’t know it.'"

"He scared me," she continued. "He's like, ‘You know you could go to jail for lying to a federal officer like this. Like, this is really bad.'"

"I'm freaking out. I'm like, ‘I’m having a panic attack. I’m not gonna be let into America!'" the pop star recalled, saying she was "so scared" and "having a panic attack" at the time.

"After 30 minutes of interrogation, he looks at me, and he goes, ‘What’s your name?'"

"And I go ‘Olivia Rodrigo. R-O-D-R-I-G-O,’" she remembered. "He's like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you, that's your same age, that's been arrested multiple times, and her name is Olivia Rodriguez.'"

The Bad Idea, Right singer added: "I was pissed. I’m like, dude you didn’t even look at the name on the thing. Crisis averted.”

The interrogation wasn’t the only scary incident during the World tour.

Earlier this month, while performing in Melbourne, Australia, the singer tripped and fell into a hole on stage.

She told Fallon, who played a video of the accident for the audience, that "it was really scary."

The singer said she was taken to the hospital after her concert to check for a concussion and the nurse who was assigned to her was a Filipino man with the same name as her grandfather, who recently passed away.

"I was like, ‘Wow, that was him looking out for me, making sure I didn’t get hurt.' And so I'm really happy it happened. I think it's a beautiful story."

Rodrigo's 'Guts World Tour' is currently on hiatus until March 2025.

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