Olivia Rodrigo defended by fans after she bought cigarettes and alcohol for her 21st birthday

26 February 2024, 12:03 | Updated: 25 October 2024, 22:56

By Sam Prance

Olivia Rodrigo celebrated turning 21 by purchasing a pack of cigarettes and a six pack of beer.

Criticising Olivia Rodrigo for revealing that she bought cigarettes and a six pack of beer when she turned 21? I don't think!

Earlier this year, Olivia kicked off her highly anticipated Guts World Tour to rave reviews. The show is her first arena spectacular and Variety have called it the "best rock tour" of the year so far. Just this week in fact, the tour was crowned the 'highest-grossing tour by an artist born this century' with $186 million.

From the outfits to the vocals and the setlist, it truly was a must see event and now it's come to a close, we'll be sat ready and waiting for the next one!

However, amid all the well deserved praise, one moment sparked some backlash on social media and Olivia's fans ended up rushing to her defence.

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Ahead of performing 'Teenage Dream' on the piano during her first show, Olivia opened up about how she celebrated her 21st birthday which happened a couple of days before.

Olivia told the crowd: "I don’t know if you guys know this, but I just turned 21. I’m really f---ing excited about it - big birthday. I went to the gas station the other day and bought a pack of cigarettes and a six-pack of beer."

She then added: "I promise I didn’t consume it, but I just bought it because I f---ing could."

Olivia also released a Guts shot glass as merch to celebrate her 21st birthday.

While many people related to and loved Olivia's comments, other people started accusing her of encouraging her young fans to drink and smoke.

One person tweeted: "Maybe don’t tell that to a bunch of kids".

It also sparked a wave of fans jokingly joining in on the outrage and turning the whole thing into a meme.

One person tweeted: "promoting drinking and smoking to a primarily underage audience? i stan her but this isn't okay."

As a result, people are now speaking out in support of Olivia. One fan wrote: "So people are mad at the 21 year old for acting like a 21 year old…. got it".

Someone also joked: "ppl acting like she wrote and produced euphoria and showed it at recess to at risk youth."

Obviously, there is nothing wrong with Olivia buying alcohol and cigarettes! Let her live!

Olivia ended her speech saying: "Anyway, all this to say that I think growing up isn’t so scary after all and life just kind of gets better at the end."

Pretty good advice if you ask me!

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