Yungblud Reveals Rod Stewart Knows About the Grandfather White Lie

One of Yungblud’s most formative musical memories was the white lie his grandma told him that his estranged grandfather was none other than Rod Stewart . He’s shared this tall tale in a variety of interviews over the years — including a 2019 Rolling Stone profile — but in his most recent telling, Yungblud revealed that Stewart himself is aware of the story.

During an interview on The Capital Evening Show with Jimmy Hill , Yungblud once again recounted how his maternal grandmother — who raised Yunglud’s mom as a single mother — brought him up believing that Stewart was his grandpa. The illusion finally broke when Yungblud was about nine years old, when he was at a store with his grandmother and picked up a Stewart CD by the checkout counter.

He recalled: “It was like proper