During a recent episode of the StageLeft podcast, rhythm guitarist Daisy Spencer shared that Olivia Rodrigo offered free and accessible therapy for all crew members throughout the Guts World Tour, even during the breaks when they weren’t traveling. Spencer explained that she had recently fallen out of the habit of going to therapy due to difficulty finding a suitable therapist.
“And then, on the Guts World Tour, Olivia and our tour manager, Marty Hom, made accessible and free therapy for all of the touring personnel,” Spencer said. The tour kicked off in California in February 2024 and continued through October, resuming in January 2025 and concluding on July 1 in Manchester, U.K.
Spencer noted how impactful this gesture was, saying it helped her reconnect with the importance of mental health care. “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, and then suddenly I had this free resource of incredible therapists, and I utilized the crap out of that,” she said.
Thanks to Rodrigo’s support, Spencer was able to attend therapy weekly or biweekly, even when not actively touring. “Honestly, that was one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour,” she remarked. “Like, seriously, one of the best things you can give to people is accessible free therapy, because it can get kind of expensive.”
Having toured since she was 17, Spencer said the sessions were instrumental in helping her process unresolved childhood trauma. For her, prioritizing mental health meant finally acknowledging her younger self’s struggles: “doing baby Daisy a good justice of finally getting to hear baby Daisy’s story of what they were going through when I was younger and everything.”
Rodrigo, now 22, has previously spoken about the positive impact of therapy in her own life. She told CBS Sunday Morning in 2021 that she started seeing a therapist at 16, calling it a “really big, life-changing moment” that taught her a lot about herself.
“Sometimes people are like, ‘Oh, you don’t need that, you have so much, your life is so great, what are your problems?’” Rodrigo said at the time. “I think that’s definitely a thing that sometimes older people can do to younger people, too, is kind of trivialize what they’re going through just because they’re like, ‘Eh, they’re fine, they’re just kids, they’ll get through it.’ But it feels so real when you’re in it, and it’s so valid, and just because it’s not an adult problem or you don’t have to pay taxes yet or whatever doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.”
Rodrigo joins other artists who have spoken publicly about mental health, including Adele, Billie Eilish, Bebe Rexha, Ariana Grande, Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Duff McKagan, Demi Lovato, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, and Ed Sheeran.
Spencer emphasized how meaningful the therapy access has been: “a gift for real. I feel like it is such a gift to be able to look within yourself and have someone else help you bring some stuff out of you that you might otherwise on your own not be able to get there. That’s the gift that therapy has given to me, is that I am able to really flesh out some stuff from my childhood that that needed a voice.”
At the time of publication, Rodrigo’s team had not commented on Spencer’s remarks.
Watch Spencer talk about how therapy on the road has helped her — as well as how she creates a “stage persona” for arena crowds, her guitar part on “Vampire” and playing “Hot To Go” with Chappell Roan — below.
