Olivia Rodrigo's new album is out now - but did you know she's 60% deaf in one ear?

Olivia Rodrigo's third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is finally here, giving fans an intimate look at the rise and fall of her first "real, big girl" relationship. But as listeners unpack the deeply personal songs, many are only now discovering another side of the Grammy-winning star: she has been living with partial deafness since childhood.

During a June 4 appearance on KISS FM UK, the 23-year-old singer candidly discussed her hearing condition while talking about her new song, “what’s wrong with me.” "There's quite a lot that's wrong with me," Rodrigo said. "I'm actually like, 60% deaf in my left ear. So, if you were to sit on this side of me and try to tell me a secret, I couldn't make out what you were saying."

The singer, known for her self-deprecating sense of humor, quickly turned the revelation into a joke, adding, "So, if you tell me a secret, go right ear."

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While the admission may surprise many fans, Rodrigo explained that partial hearing loss has been a part of her life since childhood. In a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she recalled first learning about the condition during a routine school screening.

“I never knew until kindergarten or so when they're doing the tests on all the kids, and they were like, ‘Oh, you're a little hard of hearing,'" she told the publication. "It's interesting."

She also revealed that she and her close friend, photographer Petra Collins, often laugh about the quirks that shaped their creative paths. "One of my friends is this great photographer, Petra Collins, and she has really bad vision," Rodrigo said. “So we always joke that I make music because I have bad hearing, and she takes photos because she has bad vision."

Rodrigo's openness about her hearing comes as she promotes You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, an album that traces the rise and fall as her first "real, big girl" relationship.

The record unfolds almost like a diary, moving from the excitement of new love to the loneliness and heartbreak of a relationship that no longer works. For months, fan speculation suggested the singer had initially planned an album centered entirely on romance before reworking it after a highly publicized breakup.

Speaking on The New York Times' Popcast, Rodrigo explained that much of the album's first half had already been written before the relationship ended, leading her to revisit and reshape the earlier songs.

"We had the fun challenge of going back and actually tweaking some of the love songs on the record and making them a little more honest and more sad and creepy," she said.