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Joshua Bassett shook his head and rolled his eyes when a fan insulted rumored ex-girlfriend Olivia Rodrigo during his concert

Mar 14, 2023, 23:34 IST
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Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett attend Disney+ "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" Season 3 premiere at Walt Disney Studios on July 27, 2022 in Burbank, California.David Livingston/FilmMagic
  • Joshua Bassett shut down a fan who yelled "Fuck Olivia!" during his concert Sunday.
  • He looked at the audience, shook his head, made a face, and rolled his eyes mid-song.
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Joshua Bassett shut down a fan who screamed a profane insult about Olivia Rodrigo in the middle of his performance.

While Bassett was singing "Set Me Free" at his Sunday night show in Portland, Oregon, a fan yelled, "Fuck Olivia!" during a brief pause in the music after he sang, "But I've been going through it, too."

Bassett previously told GQ that he wrote "Set Me Free" while processing sexual abuse that he experienced in his childhood. He described the song as "an anthem for me and the sort of people who've held pain and power over me my whole life."

A video of the interruption, shared on TikTok by Mia Reese, shows Bassett processing the insult as he continued to play the song — before turning toward the audience, shaking his head, making a face, and rolling his eyes.

The video has racked up 2 million views since it was posted on Monday afternoon.

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The fan was seemingly referring to Rodrigo, who was reportedly in a real-life relationship with Bassett while costarring in the Disney+ series "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series." Neither Rodrigo nor Bassett has ever publicly confirmed their relationship or their breakup.

However, many fans assume Rodrigo's debut album "Sour" — including the Grammy-nominated single "Driver's License" — was inspired by Bassett, who publicly began dating fellow Disney star Sabrina Carpenter shortly after reports of Rodrigo's split from Bassett.

Carpenter all but confirmed these rumors with her 2022 single "Because I Liked a Boy," which appears to address the backlash Carpenter faced after "Drivers License" became a surprise smash hit. (Rodrigo condemned "weird and speculative" reactions to the song.)

"I'm not catastrophizing, everything's derailing / Was only tryna hold you close while your heart was failing," Carpenter sings, adding: "When everything went down, we'd already broken up."

Bassett previously revealed that he was hospitalized with septic shock a few days after Rodrigo released "Driver's License."

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"I'm sure stress had a part in it," Bassett told GQ.

More recently, Bassett has aligned himself with the Bethel megachurch in Redding, California, where he was baptized in February.

"I grew up Christian and I ran the other way, as far as I could go, in pursuit of the 'truth,'" he said in a video of the ceremony. "That only ended in addiction, depression, suicidal ideation, eating disorders, et cetera. No other teacher gave me anywhere near the peace that Jesus Christ did."

The actor later condemned the church's support of anti-gay conversion therapy, writing on Twitter, "what drew me to Christ was an invitation of love."

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