Billie Eilish shares experience of being ghosted: “I couldn’t believe it”

Billie Eilish has opened up about her experience of being ghosted. The singer-songwriter, who recently released her new album Hit Me Hard And Soft, revealed on Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver’s Miss Me podcast that the incident happened last December.

“I was like, did you die? Did you literally die?” Eilish said, describing the incident as “literally unbelievable.” To this day, she has never heard from him again.

Eilish explained that the person was someone she had known for years. They had made plans for that day, with specific details about where and when to meet, but he never showed up or contacted her again. She later discovered he was dating someone else. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “But I didn’t know people still did that. I genuinely didn’t know people did that.”

In the same interview, Eilish also discussed the impact of fame on her friendships. She revealed that she “lost all of my friends when I got famous,” except for her best friend, Zoe. Her only other friends were her employees. She recounted her 20th birthday, saying, “I remember looking around the room and it was only people that I employ. And all 15 years or more older than me.”

Despite this, Eilish has since reconnected with old friends and made new ones. “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 said.

Eilish shared that Lily Allen’s 2006 debut single “Smile” inspired her to make new friends. “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 me through it.”