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

Rod Stewart has a few grandchildren, but YUNGBLUD isn’t one of them (despite what the punk rocker used to think).

While guesting on Capital FM on Tuesday (Oct. 21), YUNGBLUD opened up about how he mistakenly believed that the iconic singer-songwriter was his grandfather for about a decade. “So, basically, my mum never had a dad,” he said on the radio program. “My nan was always a very imaginative lady, and my nan would lie to me.”

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“She’d put me in a foot bath and lie to me and say that Rod Stewart was my grandfather for, like, my formative years,” YUNGBLUD continued, laughing. “So up to about 9 years old, I thought Rod Stewart was my grandad.”

It wasn’t until he and his grandmother were out grocery shopping one day that he finally learned the truth. “I remember by the checkout, I picked up a Rod Stewart CD,” YUNGBLUD recalled. “[I was], like, proper quivering lip, like, ‘Nan, when’s granddad coming home?’ And everyone at the checkout started laughing … And that was the day I found out Rod Stewart was not in fact my grandfather.”

But while there’s no “blud” relation between YUNGBLUD and Stewart, it sounds like the latter is down to welcome the former into the family. According to the “Parents” musician, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer sent him a sweet DM after finding out about the childhood delusion.

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

The interview comes about a month after the release of YUNGBLUD’s collaboration with Aerosmith, “My Only Angel,” which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart. The track will appear on a joint EP the two rock acts are working on.

Watch YUNGBLUD explain how he thought Stewart was his grandfather for the first 10 years of his life above.

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