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It wasn't even her! Fans feel cheated after Billie Eilish reveals using BODY DOUBLE at Coachella

The 'Bad Guy' singer admitted: 'The beginning of Coachella, I had a body double - one of my dancers for the show'

Billie Eilish admitted to using a "body double" for a portion of her performance at this year's Coachella music festival in an interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1 prior to headlining at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival.

The 'Bury a Friend' singer stated: "The beginning of Coachella, I had a body double - one of my dancers for the show." Billie Eilish, 20, was the youngest headlining performer at Coachella since the event's inception in October 1999. During the introduction sequence of her performance, which includes fragments of the songs 'Oxytocin' and 'Happier Than Ever,' a doppelganger is seen standing at the back of the stage. It takes around two minutes into the performance for the person's face to become visible, at which point her 2019 song 'Bury a Friend' starts to play.

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Eilish added: "I dressed her up in a show look that I had worn before. We got a black wig and we put buns in it and we gave her a mask and sunglasses and she wore my shoes and my socks." She continued to describe how she went about employing a decoy: "I put her up at the back of the stage and she stood there while the lights went on and everybody thought it was me. And nobody ever knew it wasn't me, literally nobody knew. And while she's up there, I put on a big black coat and a traffic vest and a hood and just glasses."

When asked if she ever goes to festivals in disguise to listen to other musicians play when she isn't required on stage, Eilish responded: "Yeah, but I was a different person then and it didn't work! I've done it though, occasionally in different places, and it's really nice when you're able to do it." The Oscar-winner has spoken openly about body shame in the past, and in 2020, she created a short film called 'Not My Responsibility' on how others see her looks. Then 18 years old, the woman acknowledged feeling "trapped" in the persona she had built for herself in a 2020 interview with GQ. "Here’s a bomb for you: I have never felt desired," she said.

"My past boyfriends never made me feel desired. None of them. And it’s a big thing in my life that I feel I have never been physically desired by somebody," she continued. "So I dress the way I dress as I don’t like to think of you guys - I mean anyone, everyone - judging it, or the size of it. But that doesn’t mean that I won’t wake up one day and decide to wear a tank top, which I have done before."

She also talked about her adolescent experiences, saying that while she had previously sought to blend in with her classmates and frequently visited trendy stores, which she regarded as "very uncomfortable," the desire to be like her classmates vanished "pretty fast."

Meanwhile, Eilish's revelation that she used a body double sparked some critical responses on Twitter. One user said, "You all paid thousands of dollars to go to Coachella, to see Billie Eilish and she used a body double."

Another quipped, "I love paying to go see my favorite artist's body double perform."

"i don’t agree with billie eilish using a body double for coachella imagine paying money and wanting to see your favourite artist but later find out it wasn’t even them, I’d be crushed - don’t wanna do the performance? Then pull out x," a third added.