Sabrina Carpenter doesn't faze Olivia Rodrigo in the slightest. In fact, five years after they were embroiled in a rumored love triangle with fellow Disney alumni Joshua Bassett, the "bad idea right?" singer shared an update on her relationship with Sabrina.
"I think she's great," Olivia told British Vogue in an interview published on March 19th. "I'm so happy for all of her success, too. I love the album she's put out." While the 23-year-old—who dated her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series costar from 2019 to 2020—couldn't help but praise Sabrina's Man's Best Friend album, she admitted that she was unsure about addressing her relationship with the "Manchild" singer overall.
"It's just people get weird and clickbaity," she explained. "But it's all love, though. I've talked to her many times."
Olivia also reflected on the public reaction to the rumored love triangle in 2021 after she released her hit song "Drivers License" and Sabrina—who sparked romance speculations with Joshua at the time, though it was never confirmed—dropped her subsequent track "Skin."
"Sometimes I meet a 17 or an 18-year-old nowadays and I'm like, 'Wow, you are such a baby,'" she shared. "I can't believe people were that mean to me."
And it was an especially difficult chapter for Olivia—now in a relationship with Louis Patridge, 22—to navigate.
"I was going through a breakup, working a full-time job, making [Sour], a student in high school, and taking three AP [college-level] classes," she recalled. "Looking back, I always think, 'Wow, life will never be as hard as it was when I was 17.'"
Following the onslaught of rumors surrounding their friendship—and whether Sabrina was, in fact, the person Olivia referenced in the Grammy-winning song—the "Deja Vu" singer declined to share insight into the song's inspiration.
"I totally understand people's curiosity with the specifics of who the song's about and what it's about, but to me, that's really the least important part of the song," she told Billboard in January 2021. "It's resonating with people because of how emotional it is, and I think everything else is not important."
Meanwhile, Sabrina was happy to share what she learned from looking in the rearview mirror, without going into too much detail.
"What that era taught me was to just trust myself and trust that everything is going to work out the way it's supposed to," she told Rolling Stone in June 2025. "You might not see that in the moment, but you see it later."
