Halsey Avoided Trouble with Police After Noise Complaint by Taking Photo with Them: 'Don't Love That'

Mar. 15, 2025

Halsey in Los Angeles in October 2022.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty

Halseyhas a lot of empathy for their younger self.

In a cover story interview withRolling Stone UKon Wednesday, Oct. 16, the pop star, 30, recalled a party she hosted a few years back which the police shut down due to noise — and the deal she made to avoid trouble.

The “Ego” singer ended up taking them up on their ask and posed soaking wet in a bra alongside the police. While she found it funny at the time, as she’s gotten older, Halsey has reassessed.

Halsey performs in New York in September 2024.Mike Coppola/Getty

Mike Coppola/Getty

“It wasn’t until a couple of years later that I was like, ‘Damn, those cops just have a picture of me half naked on their phone,'" Halsey told the publication. “I’m sure it comes out in bars. Ah, don’t love that.”

They added: “All those little versions of me that are out on their little side quests, floating around the world – I wish I could bring you back home so that you weren’t out there going through that."

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Halsey in Hollywood in June 2024.Stewart Cook/Getty Images

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“That picture on that phone, that nude on someone’s phone, that Polaroid photo, all those little versions of me in that intimate space whether consenting or not, that are out in the world that people were using for whatever, I wish I could call them back," Halsey said. “That’s a really lonely feeling.”

When the conversation turned to the idea of asking someone to delete their nudes, she pointed to the idea of being a people pleaser and how that translates to her single “Lonely Is the Muse.”

“I’ve always wanted to be the Cool Girl. And asking someone to delete all your nudes is not very Cool Girl of you, even in the breakup. I’m different now, but that song is about a decade and a half of that,” they explained.

Halsey is set to release her new albumThe Great Impersonatoron Oct. 25.

source: people.com