Fans around the world were in shock last month when footage circulated online of . The 21-year-old pop star was performing in front of 14,000 fans at when she suddenly fell through a hole that clearly wasn’t meant to be there. as she hit her arms on the stage trying to catch herself, before she recovered and told the crowd: “Oh my God! That was fun, I'm OK! Wow! Sometimes there is just a hole in the stage.
That's alright!” The hitmaker has since addressed the viral moment during an interview on to promote the GUTS concert special on . While she said the incident is “pretty terrifying” to watch back, she revealed that she now feels thankful it happened to her after having a “beautiful” experience in the hospital. “It was actually kind of a beautiful thing, and I'm really happy it happened in hindsight,” she detailed.
“So I'd just been to the Philippines - that was my next stop, Australia, after the Philippines - and I was thinking about my family and my heritage and my relatives. “I fell and I was like all shaken up and I went to the hospital after - nothing happened, but they just wanted to make sure I didn't have a concussion.” Olivia went on to share that the nurse was a Filipino man with the same name as her grandpa, who passed away a few months ago.
“And so I was like, wow, that was him looking out for me making sure I didn't get hurt, and so I'm really happy it happened,” she said. “That was your grandfather, it absolutely was,” Jimmy repl.