Billie Eilish Says Fame Can Be 'Gross' — How She Learned to Enjoy It

While most 17-year-olds are getting their license or applying for college, Billie Eilish is playing sold-out stadiums and booking late-night gigs. After releasing a new single about fame, “everything I wanted,” Eilish is opening up more about how she struggles with her newfound celebrity status as a teenager. In a video interview with Vanity Fair, the American Music Awards best new artist winner admitted she only recently came to enjoy her time in the spotlight. “I like being famous, but I used to hate it,” Eilish confessed.

“I hated doing press and I hated being recognized and I hated kind of everything that had to do with it. ” “There’s a lot in fame that’s f—ing gross and horrible and just miserable,” she continued. “But I’m very grateful for it, and it’s really rare and I’m very lucky, so I’m done with complaining about it. ” The young artist had a No.

1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 this summer with “bad guy” and was nominated for six Grammys this year, but Eilish admitted that she didn’t envision herself becoming as successful as she is now just one year ago. “Back then, I thought it was the biggest it was ever going to be,” she said. “I thought it was the most I was ever going to be recognized, and it’s the most anyone is going to know me, and it was the most money that I would have, the most clothes I’d have, the most shoes I’d have. And what’s crazy is, it wasn’t.

” “I genuinely did not think people would care. I can’t believe people care so much,” she added. She reflected on a recent performance with some overly enthusiastic fans as an instance where “they’re only trying to be loving, and sometimes it just comes off wrong. ” “Somebody grabbed my hand and yanked me so hard.

I had two security guards … literally trying to pull me away, and it took a minute to do it,” she recalled. “When they finally let go, I fell, and then somebody stole my ring. Somebody grabbed my hand and pulled my ring off.

“” With her growing fame, Eilish has become more comfortable in her own skin.”