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We're back with Billie Eilish.
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And so you've got huge--
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I mean, like you've got fans that are Julia Roberts, Sam
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Smith, Thom Yorke.
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Dave Grohl is here.
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He's a huge fan of yours.
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You know, I mean, like you have major people that
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are fans of yours.
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It's unreal.
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It's crazy because, like, I don't know.
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I feel like recently I've met a lot of people
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that my parents grew up as fans of.
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Right.
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You know, and that's no disrespect to your age--
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Right.
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--Dave.
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[LAUGHS]
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[LAUGHTER]
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But-- no, but it's--
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I think that's when it really hits me.
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Yeah.
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Because, you know, I was in--
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I was even in a meeting with Stella McCartney,
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and she Face Timed her dad, which is Paul McCartney.
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Paul McCartney.
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Right.
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So, you know, my mom cried.
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My dad cried.
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Yeah.
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Like, it was-- your eyes are so beautiful.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Me?
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Yeah, you.
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Oh.
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I thought you were still telling a story.
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No.
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Your eyes are beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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So-- so that-- is that who freaked you out the most,
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is Paul McCartney, do you think?
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Probably.
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I feel like probably.
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But, in London, Sporty Spice came backstage.
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Oh.
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And--
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Sporty Spice.
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--that meant something to you?
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It did.
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Did you follow the Spice Girls?
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You're too young for that.
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OK.
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Can I tell you something?
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Well, you're here.
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So--
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[LAUGHTER]
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You might as well.
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So when I was growing up, I would watch--
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growing up.
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[LAUGHS] I'm 17.
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[LAUGHS]
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We would watch Spice World.
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Like, I watched that movie like 40 times.
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And I thought it was, like, a fictional movie about a group
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of girls who were in a group.
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And they sang.
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And I thought that was it.
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Yeah.
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I was like-- and I remember like some-- like, Spice Girls,
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I was like, oh, my god.
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They're reenacting the movie.
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Yeah.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Because I thought it was like--
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I thought I was like a fictional movie about some girls--
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Right.
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--called the Spice Girl.
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Right.
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It wasn't.
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No, no.
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[LAUGHTER]
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And so you spoke about something that I
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think is really important and--
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and brave, that you didn't intend to speak about,
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but that you have Tourette's syndrome,
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and that it comes out at certain times.
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But I think that's amazing that you spoke about it because you
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kind of take away the, you know, scariness of it.
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It's something I've lived with my whole life.
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And everybody knows.
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Like, everybody in my family, all my friends,
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all the people that are closest to me know I have it.
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And it's not anything different, you know?
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And I just never said anything because I didn't want to--
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I didn't want that to define who I was.
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I don't want it to be like, Billie,
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the artist with Tourette's, Billie Eilish is on Ellen.
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Yeah.
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I have ways of kind of making them go away.
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So if I'm on like-- if it's like an on camera interview
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or whatever--
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That's what this is.
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Yes, it is.
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[LAUGHTER]
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But, normally, if it's like a pretaped thing,
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they cut out the questions.
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Right.
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And that's when I let them out.
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But then there was this one interview
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where they didn't tell me they weren't
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going to cut the questions out.
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So I'm-- I'm sitting there, answering the questions like,
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uh huh.
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And then they-- they start asking me a question,
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and I'm like.
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And then everyone's like, that's so funny.
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And they made a whole--
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Yeah.
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There was tons of compilations, like, this is so funny
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that Billie did this facial expression, when really it's
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just a bunch of tics.
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Right.
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Well, no.
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I think it-- like I said, I think
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it's a good thing that you-- you--
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because I am sure a lot of people
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have that, and look at where you are, and look at what you have
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accomplished, and you haven't let that even
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make you feel like there's something wrong with it.
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Because it's not.
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It's just part of who you are.
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I think I've also really learned that, like, a lot of my fans
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have it.
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Yeah.
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Like, which made me feel kind of more at home with saying it.
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Yeah.
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Because I remember post-- and also
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I felt like there was a connection there.
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I felt like when I said that, there
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were kids that were posting and being like, oh, my god.
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I've always had this.
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Yeah.
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Like, now she has it and she's who I can look up to with it.
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But--
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Yeah, no.
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I think it's-- like I said, I think a lot of people watching
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now that, you know, maybe didn't hear you say it before will be
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like, well, I have it, too.
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And that's great.
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Mhm.