Olivia Rodrigo shares why heartbreak pain feels less with growing age

For heartbreak at 17, Olivia Rodrigo says it is the worst pain anyone can feel regarding a relationship.

However, with age, the pain of a split gets less, according to the pop icon.

Telling Dazed, Rodrigo says, "I think it gets easier. I don’t know, talk to me in two years and maybe I’ll have gone through the worst heartbreak ever."

However, she admits, "I just feel like heartbreak will never be as bad as it was when you were 17 years old."

Without naming with whom she had been in a relationship, Rodrigo shares, "That breakup that I went through when I was 17."

"Oh my God, nothing will ever be that tough ever again," she recalls.

Despite experiencing a sharp sense of hurt after rejection at a young age, Rodrigo now says she has evolved emotionally with age.

"Hopefully! Maybe I’m speaking very naively. But I do feel that with every kind of rejection — whether in love or a work thing, a friend thing or whatever — I’m taking stuff less personally as I get older. As you grow and have more experiences, it starts to feel OK."

Rodrigo, meanwhile, is gearing up for her forthcoming third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which will be out on June 12.