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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Alaina Demopoulos

Olivia Rodrigo is scared of birds – and she’s not alone. What’s behind this fear?

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Olivia Rodrigo says if we can tolerate birds, aliens are nothing to worry about. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

“Birds are so foreign to us – there’s not one body part that looks like ours,” Olivia Rodrigo recently told Rolling Stone magazine with a straight face. The gen Z pop sensation went on: “Everyone’s all afraid about aliens and shit. They’re like, ‘What are the aliens going to look like?’ I’m like, ‘We have birds on our planet, and we’re not scared of them. We’re fine!’”

Rodrigo is not the only celebrity whose relationship with the avian community is strained. Lucille Ball saw some sparrows in the window on the day she found out her father had died. For the rest of her life, she stayed away from bird-printed art and decor.

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