Billie Eilish has revealed that she ‘lost all her friends’ when she got famous as she ‘couldn’t relate to anyone’.
The Lunch singer, 22, spoke in a candid new interview where she said it was ‘really tough’ to experience.
She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single Ocean Eyes and since has gone on to be one of the biggest artists in the world.
Appearing on the BBC podcast Miss Me?’, she told hosts Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver she said: ‘Well I lost all of my friends when I got famous.
‘I suddenly was famous, and I couldn’t relate to anybody. It was tough. It was really hard.’
Billie Eilish has revealed that she ‘lost all her friends’ when she got famous as she ‘couldn’t relate to anyone’
The Lunch singer, 22, spoke in a candid new interview where she said it was ‘really tough’ to experience (seen with her Grammys in 2021)
Luckily, she is still close with her best friend, Zoe, and her staff members that are friends.
She added: ‘And then it was my 20th birthday and I remember looking around the room and it was only people that I employ. And all 15 years or more older than me.’
However, one of her employees quit and never spoke to her again.
She recalled: ‘And it was the worst thing that happened to me. And that made me realise like ‘oh wait, this is a job.’
‘If they left me, they would never see me again.’
As a result, Billie is ‘very freaked out by loss and I have a lot of abandonment problems.’
Despite that, she said she has since got in touch with her old friends and made some new ones along the way.
Billie added: ‘Exactly a year ago, I reconnected with a bunch of old friends and now, I have so many friends.
‘I have a crew now! I could literally cry about it. It’s been the greatest thing that’s happened to me.’
She added: ‘And then it was my 20th birthday and I remember looking around the room and it was only people that I employ. And all 15 years or more older than me’ (seen are snaps from the party)
At the time of her 20th birthday she shared snaps of the event which only included a picture of her cake and an empty bouncy castle
Appearing on the BBC podcast Miss Me?’, she told hosts Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver (seen) she said: ‘Well I lost all of my friends when I got famous’
She said that when she recently went with them to a party at Coachella, she burst into tears.
The star explained: ‘I was like, ‘Guys, I have friends and I just love you guys so much, and it’s been so long since I’ve had friends’. I cried… and it’s literally because I actually have friendship now again.’
The singer-songwriter went on to say that the lyrics, ‘But with a little help from my friends, I found the light in the tunnel at the end’, from Lily Allen’s 2006 debut single Smile helped inspire her to make new friends.
She added: ‘I used to want to cry hearing that line because I didn’t feel that way, because I didn’t have friends.
‘And I remember thinking I want to feel that way. And I want to listen to this song that I relate to in every way and hear that line about friends and be like, my friends got my through it.’
Billie is set to perform in Paris on June 11 after releasing her first self-directed music video to accompany her new single Chihiro.
The video stars Nat Wolff, known for The Naked Brothers Band, The Fault In Our Stars, and Paper Towns.
Chihiro is the second single from her album Hit Me Hard and Soft which came out in May and follows Lunch.
The Los Angeles native shared that that she had ‘envisioned a dream-like narrative’ for the music video.
Eilish said that in an effort to ‘symbolize the different corners of the mind,’ she included imagery of ‘long, dark hallways and shutting of doors’ in the clip.
In the video, Billie is seen making her way down a series of hallways in a drab institutional building, eventually convening with Natt.
Chihiro is so name for the main character of 2001 cult Japanese film Spirited Away.
The video has received over three million YouTube views in the fewer than 24 hours it has been up.
The lyrics video for the song that has racked up 7.7 million views on the platform.
Billie took to Instagram on May 16 with a clip in which she sat alongside her brother and musical collaborator Finneas and spoke about their latest creative endeavor.
She captioned the post: ”Dude ‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’ my third album is f***ing out now i don’t even know what to SAAYY…’
Billie added that she and her sibling ‘put so much into this album and have never ever ever loved something more.’
She continued: ‘We hope you enjoy it so much and I’ll see you on the other side EEEEEEEEEEEEEK HMHAS OUT NOW EVERYWHERE LOVE YOU ALL TO DEAAAAATH!!!!’
Luckily, she is still close with her best friend, Zoe, and some of her staff members that are friends
Despite that, she said she has since got in touch with her old friends and made some new ones along the way (seen performing in March 2024)
Billie and her brother, 26, previously collaborated on two studio albums: 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and 2021’s Happier Than Ever.
She told Rolling Stone in April: ‘I feel like this album is me. ‘It’s not a character. It feels like the When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? version of me. It feels like my youth and who I was as a kid.’
Producer Finneas, who has won 10 Grammys, is the youngest-ever artist to win Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category.
Billie and Finneas are together the youngest artists in history to win two Oscars, taking home the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2022 and 2024 for No Time To Die and What Was I Made For? respectively.
