YUNGBLUD Says His Grandma Would ‘Lie’ That Rod Stewart Was His Grandpa — And the Icon DM’d Him About It

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"My nan was ever a precise imaginative lady," the rocker said.

Rod Stewart has a fewer grandchildren, but YUNGBLUD isn’t 1 of them (despite what the punk rocker utilized to think).

While guesting connected Capital FM connected Tuesday (Oct. 21), YUNGBLUD opened up astir however helium mistakenly believed that the iconic singer-songwriter was his gramps for astir a decade. “So, basically, my mum ne'er had a dad,” helium said connected the vigor program. “My nan was ever a precise imaginative lady, and my nan would prevarication to me.”

“She’d enactment maine successful a ft bath and prevarication to maine and accidental that Rod Stewart was my gramps for, like, my formative years,” YUNGBLUD continued, laughing. “So up to astir 9 years old, I thought Rod Stewart was my grandad.”

It wasn’t until helium and his grandma were retired market buying 1 time that helium yet learned the truth. “I retrieve by the checkout, I picked up a Rod Stewart CD,” YUNGBLUD recalled. “[I was], like, due quivering lip, like, ‘Nan, when’s granddad coming home?’ And everyone astatine the checkout started laughing … And that was the time I recovered retired Rod Stewart was not successful information my grandfather.”

But portion there’s nary “blud” narration betwixt YUNGBLUD and Stewart, it sounds similar the second is down to invited the erstwhile into the family. According to the “Parents” musician, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer sent him a saccharine DM aft uncovering retired astir the puerility delusion.

“He says, ‘Alright my wee grandson!’” YUNGBLUD said of the exchange. “And I was like, ‘Rod Stewart, man.'”

The interrogation comes astir a period aft the merchandise of YUNGBLUD’s collaboration with Aerosmith, “My Only Angel,” which debuted astatine No. 1 connected Billboard‘s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart. The way volition look connected a associated EP the 2 stone acts are moving on.

Watch YUNGBLUD explicate however helium thought Stewart was his gramps for the archetypal 10 years of his beingness above.