Olivia Rodrigo earned the title of breakup anthem queen after the 2021 launch of her debut album, Bitter — however who served because the songstress’ inspiration? From Disney costars to music producers, check out the “Good 4 U” artist’s previous romances.
Ethan Wacker
Earlier than making it massive and topping the charts, Rodrigo was romantically linked to her Disney Channel costar. The pair started as buddies as they met on the set of their present, Bizaardvark, which premiered in 2016. Two years later, their connection blossomed into one thing extra. In January 2019, Rodrigo and Wacker introduced in a now-deleted Instagram publish that they had been courting for six months.
Later that 12 months, the twosome seemingly break up after they deleted photos of one another off their respective social media pages. Regardless of the breakup, they continue to be shut buddies. As Wacker headed off to school in 2020, Rodrigo shared her nicely needs for her ex by way of her Instagram Story.
In early 2021, Rogrido launched her hit music, “Drivers License” — and Wacker shut down the rumors that the music was about him. The actor refuted the claims made in a now-deleted TikTok concept video by responding, “I handled her nicely.”
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Joshua Bassett
Following her time on Bizaardvark, Rodrigo landed a lead position on the Disney+ sequence, Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Sequence, reverse Bassett. Whereas the love pursuits by no means confirmed they dated off display, followers have lengthy theorized that Rodrigo wrote “Drivers License” about Bassett — and the way he allegedly moved on with Sabrina Carpenter.
The alleged drama led to a number of songs from all three musicians that seemingly referenced the romance. In June 2021, Bassett spoke out concerning the drama.
“The fact is it’s type of like a misplaced trigger making an attempt to speak about any of that stuff, and I refuse to feed into any of the bulls–t, so I simply don’t,” he mentioned in an interview with GQ. “[Everyone] is asking me about Sabrina and Olivia. Why don’t we give attention to these girls for who they’re? Let’s give attention to the artwork that they’re making and the way nice they’re as a substitute of their relationship to a boy.”
Six months later, Bassett instructed the outlet he and Rodrigo had not spoken since “Drivers License” dropped earlier that 12 months and unfollowed her on Instagram the next month.
Adam Faze
Throughout her drama with Carpenter and Bassett, Rodrigo moved on with Faze in June 2021 after they had been noticed getting cozy collectively on the House Jam 2 premiere. The then-couple had been noticed the next month packing on the PDA. Whereas Faze and Rodrigo saved it low-key after these outings, Us Weekly confirmed in February 2022 they break up after one 12 months of courting.
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Zack Bia
Rodrigo was noticed with Bia at a Tremendous Bowl social gathering in February 2022, shortly earlier than Us confirmed her break up from the music producer. Two months later, the pair had been noticed collectively once more on a lunch date in New York Metropolis. A supply solely instructed Us in August 2022 that the Grammy winner and DJ had been “casually courting” however their “relationship type of fizzled” out.
