Billie Eilish reveals why she 'deleted' social media apps off her phone
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Social media can be an unforgiving and brutal platform at times and the negativity from these platforms usually pushes celebrities to the brink. They often find themselves distancing from these apps just to preserve themselves. One such public personality who has now admitted to distancing herself from social media is singer Billie Eilish. The 21-year-old singer appeared on the 'Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend’ podcast recently, where she talked about her current relationship with social media.
"I don't look at it anymore," she said, “I've deleted it all off my phone." She also chalked the move as a “huge deal” for her, while also detailing how her childhood had not been influenced by the internet- unlike the kids of today. "I feel like I grew up in the perfect time of the internet when it wasn't so internet-y that I didn't have a childhood. I really had such a childhood and I was doing stuff all the time," she said, according to ET. "It was computers and games on computers, but barely. We were doing stuff. And then when I became a preteen there were iPhones, and then I got a little older and there was all of what [the internet] has become."
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'I don't like that'
"Being a preteen and a teenager on the internet, those were my people. I was one of them. I was one of those people on the internet," Eilish said. "And then to, within myself, feel like nothing changed, that I'm doing what I've always done and... to just keep doing what I do over the years, and slowly the videos I'm watching and the things I see on the internet are about me. I'm like, 'Ew! Stinky! I don't like that.'"
She then went on to explain in detail about the experience of receiving a video while with her boyfriend, Jesse Rutherford. "It was like, 'Billie Eilish is a horrible person.' And then it was a very serious video of why. The person seemed in the right head space and they were saying all of these things. I was like, 'Jeez, wow,'" she said. "It's just such a crazy reality that I live in. I'm like, 'That's my face. That's my name. That's me. Oh, interesting. OK. Alright.'"
Eilish opens up about being vulnerable
"It's these definitive statements that they know are right, somehow they know, somebody told them," Eilish said about how she is perceived because of social media posts. "God came down and said, 'This is the truth about Billie and you know it for a fact. You don't know her, but you know that this is the truth and you have to tell everybody about it and everyone's going to believe it.'"
"Anything I read on the internet I believe. Me! And I know for a fact that's stupid and I shouldn't do that because I have proof that it's not all true. Almost none of it's true," Eilish went on to add. "It's, like, little things, small white lies that goes over everybody's head, but everyone believes."
'How much was a lie?'
With all this attention, Eilish also went on to call out the media for spinning the truth for their own benefit. "There will be a photo of me somewhere at the gym and then I'll see paparazzi photos there and that's what I was doing and it says like, 'Billie Eilish in Hollywood going to a studio to work on her new album,'" she said. "That's such a small lie, but I'm like, 'Why would you even need to lie about that?' It just is very strange and then it makes me like, 'Wow, how much was a lie that I was reading when I was looking at the internet all those years?'"