Joshua Bassett Defends Ex Olivia Rodrigo From Angry Fans At Concert: Watch

Joshua Bassett, 22, didn’t admit the hatred for his ex-girlfriend Olivia Rodrigo, 20, that came from the assemblage astatine 1 of his caller concerts. Joshua was performing his opus “Set Me Free” in Portland, Oregon, connected Sunday, March 12, erstwhile a instrumentality abruptly yelled retired from the crowd, “F*** Olivia.” Joshua instantly looked retired successful the audience, side-eyeing the idiosyncratic who made the rude comment, without missing a bushed successful the song. He shook his caput and rolled his eyes, earlier diverting his attraction backmost to the soft to proceed his performance.

Joshua Bassett shuts down instrumentality who screamed “fuck Olivia [Rodrigo]” astatine his caller show. pic.twitter.com/AMtSXFqO66

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The incidental was captured connected TikTok, wherever fans praised Joshua for subtly defending his ex-girlfriend successful specified a nationalist setting. “Respect to this man,” 1 instrumentality said astir Joshua. Another instrumentality said, “he’s truthful wholesome & bully I emotion him.” Joshua’s fans besides pointed retired that the heckling astir Olivia was particularly disrespectful since “Set Me Free” is astir his trauma from puerility intersexual abuse.

Joshua and Olivia, who starred unneurotic connected Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, allegedly were in involved successful a emotion triangle with Sabrina Carpenter, 23, which inspired Olivia’s deed opus “Driver’s License.” Later on, Joshua and Sabrina fueled the occurrence by releasing songs with heartbreaking lyrics that seemed to beryllium astir play betwixt the trio. Joshua and Olivia never confirmed the romance and breakup but they haven’t denied it, either.

Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett (Photo: Stewart Cook/Shutterstock )

In a GQ interview published June 2021, Joshua came out arsenic a subordinate of the LGBTQ community, and besides addressed the expected emotion triangle. He revealed that “the hardest thing” has been “biting my tongue, successful a batch of ways, but the world is it’s benignant of similar a mislaid origin trying to speech astir immoderate of that stuff, and I garbage to provender into immoderate of the bullshit, truthful I conscionable don’t.” Joshua added, “[Everyone] is asking maine astir Sabrina and Olivia. Why don’t we absorption connected these women for who they are? Let’s absorption connected the creation that they’re making and however large they are alternatively of their narration to a boy.”

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