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Billie Eilish seen helping fan in old video as 'insensitive' Travis Scott sparks fury

The video has resurfaced amid claims that Travis Scott did not do enough to help save the lives of the eight people who died at Astroworld concert

An old video of Billie Eilish helping a fan who became unwell at one of her concerts has resurfaced amid claims that Travis Scott did not do enough to help save the lives of the eight people who died at his tragic Astroworld concert. "Billie stops during Ocean Eyes to give a fan who's about to pass out some water at her show in Stockholm. 19/02/18," a YouTube video shared in 2018 was captioned. "it’s not that difficult, stop making excuses for travis scott #ASTROWORLDFest," a user wrote on Twitter, sharing the same video. 

Billie Eilish has been praised for her kindness towards her fans on various occasions. Recently, the Grammy-nominated singer said she wanted to help fans suffering from depression. She often tells her fans on social media to practice self-love. "I just grab them by the shoulders and I'm like, 'Please take care of yourself and be good to yourself and be nice to yourself. Don't take that extra step and hurt yourself further,'" Eilish had said in a previous interview.

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Who is Kyle Green? Chaos at 2017 Travis Scott concert left man paralyzed forever

Astroworld stampede: What REALLY happened? Witness saw 'terror in every eye' at Travis Scott fest

At least eight people died and several others injured when chaos broke out at Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, on Friday night, November 5. Video of the festival is being widely circulated on social media, showing a stampede of fans breaking through a fence, and people attending the festival dancing on ambulances.

"The crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries," Houston fire chief Samuel Peña told reporters. "People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic." A "mass casualty" event led to scores of people being rushed to hospitals, with as many as 11 people reportedly suffering cardiac arrests.

Meanwhile, Kyle Green, a man who was allegedly pushed from a third-floor balcony at a Travis Scott concert four years ago, said he was “devastated” to hear eight people were killed at the rapper’s Astroworld show on November 5 in Houston. In 2017, Green, 27, was injured at Scott’s April 30 concert at Terminal 5 in Manhattan. The fall left Green paralyzed. At the concert four years ago, Scott was seen encouraging a different fan to drop down from the second-floor balcony into the crowd below him. “I see you, but are you gonna do it?” the rapper was seen telling the fan who had climbed over the railing. “They gonna catch you. Don’t be scared. Don’t be scared!”

Green said he was forced over the edge of a railing at the 2017 concert. A lawsuit filed six months later in 2017 claimed that Green broke several bones including the vertebrae as a result of the accident. He was then hauled off the floor by show staff “without a cervical collar, backboard and other safety precautions.”

Learning about the November 5 tragedy, Green's lawyer Howard Hershenhorn said that Green was "devastated and heartbroken". "He’s even more incensed by the fact that it could have been avoided had Travis learned his lesson in the past and changed his attitude about inciting people to behave in such a reckless manner,” Hershenhorn said.