During a guest appearance on the “Miss Me” podcast with Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver, Billie Eilish opened up about how she felt disconnected from her friends after she became famous. She said that “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.” She revealed that only her best friend, Zoe, was by her side after that, and her employees became her only other acquaintances.
There was a moment when Billie had an epiphany: on her 20th birthday, she realized that nobody at her party was her friend; they were all people that she employed, and all considerably older than her. She said that was the worst thing that ever happened to her. Then, an employee quit out of the blue and stopped talking to her, emphasizing that she needed to realize that “this is a job.”
Billie admitted that it’s still challenging for her to be friendly with people she works with because she has a lot of abandonment issues. She said she was “very freaked out by loss,” despite reconnecting with old friends and making new ones over the past year. When she recently celebrated with her friends at Coachella, she started crying, so grateful to have found friendship again.
Despite Billie struggling with fame, her new album “Hit Me Hard And Soft” scored a four-star rating from NME. It provides a glimpse into what it’s like to face queerness and chase passion while experiencing emotional highs and lows as a young adult. Billie’s “Hit Me Hard And Soft” world tour is set to kick off this fall, including dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland in July 2025. The tour is one of the most highly anticipated touring events of the year, and fans can still purchase tickets to any of her shows still available on Ticketmaster
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