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  • We're back with Billie Eilish.

  • And so you've got huge--

  • I mean, like you've got fans that are Julia Roberts, Sam

  • Smith, Thom Yorke.

  • Dave Grohl is here.

  • He's a huge fan of yours.

  • You know, I mean, like you have major people that

  • are fans of yours.

  • It's unreal.

  • It's crazy because, like, I don't know.

  • I feel like recently I've met a lot of people

  • that my parents grew up as fans of.

  • Right.

  • You know, and that's no disrespect to your age--

  • Right.

  • --Dave.

  • [LAUGHS]

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • But-- no, but it's--

  • I think that's when it really hits me.

  • Yeah.

  • Because, you know, I was in--

  • I was even in a meeting with Stella McCartney,

  • and she Face Timed her dad, which is Paul McCartney.

  • Paul McCartney.

  • Right.

  • So, you know, my mom cried.

  • My dad cried.

  • Yeah.

  • Like, it was-- your eyes are so beautiful.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • Me?

  • Yeah, you.

  • Oh.

  • I thought you were still telling a story.

  • No.

  • Your eyes are beautiful.

  • Thank you.

  • Yeah.

  • Thank you.

  • Yeah.

  • All right.

  • So-- so that-- is that who freaked you out the most,

  • is Paul McCartney, do you think?

  • Probably.

  • I feel like probably.

  • But, in London, Sporty Spice came backstage.

  • Oh.

  • And--

  • Sporty Spice.

  • --that meant something to you?

  • It did.

  • Did you follow the Spice Girls?

  • You're too young for that.

  • OK.

  • Can I tell you something?

  • Well, you're here.

  • So--

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • You might as well.

  • So when I was growing up, I would watch--

  • growing up.

  • [LAUGHS] I'm 17.

  • [LAUGHS]

  • We would watch Spice World.

  • Like, I watched that movie like 40 times.

  • And I thought it was, like, a fictional movie about a group

  • of girls who were in a group.

  • And they sang.

  • And I thought that was it.

  • Yeah.

  • I was like-- and I remember like some-- like, Spice Girls,

  • I was like, oh, my god.

  • They're reenacting the movie.

  • Yeah.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • Because I thought it was like--

  • I thought I was like a fictional movie about some girls--

  • Right.

  • --called the Spice Girl.

  • Right.

  • It wasn't.

  • No, no.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • And so you spoke about something that I

  • think is really important and--

  • and brave, that you didn't intend to speak about,

  • but that you have Tourette's syndrome,

  • and that it comes out at certain times.

  • But I think that's amazing that you spoke about it because you

  • kind of take away the, you know, scariness of it.

  • It's something I've lived with my whole life.

  • And everybody knows.

  • Like, everybody in my family, all my friends,

  • all the people that are closest to me know I have it.

  • And it's not anything different, you know?

  • And I just never said anything because I didn't want to--

  • I didn't want that to define who I was.

  • I don't want it to be like, Billie,

  • the artist with Tourette's, Billie Eilish is on Ellen.

  • Yeah.

  • I have ways of kind of making them go away.

  • So if I'm on like-- if it's like an on camera interview

  • or whatever--

  • That's what this is.

  • Yes, it is.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • But, normally, if it's like a pretaped thing,

  • they cut out the questions.

  • Right.

  • And that's when I let them out.

  • But then there was this one interview

  • where they didn't tell me they weren't

  • going to cut the questions out.

  • So I'm-- I'm sitting there, answering the questions like,

  • uh huh.

  • And then they-- they start asking me a question,

  • and I'm like.

  • And then everyone's like, that's so funny.

  • And they made a whole--

  • Yeah.

  • There was tons of compilations, like, this is so funny

  • that Billie did this facial expression, when really it's

  • just a bunch of tics.

  • Right.

  • Well, no.

  • I think it-- like I said, I think

  • it's a good thing that you-- you--

  • because I am sure a lot of people

  • have that, and look at where you are, and look at what you have

  • accomplished, and you haven't let that even

  • make you feel like there's something wrong with it.

  • Because it's not.

  • It's just part of who you are.

  • I think I've also really learned that, like, a lot of my fans

  • have it.

  • Yeah.

  • Like, which made me feel kind of more at home with saying it.

  • Yeah.

  • Because I remember post-- and also

  • I felt like there was a connection there.

  • I felt like when I said that, there

  • were kids that were posting and being like, oh, my god.

  • I've always had this.

  • Yeah.

  • Like, now she has it and she's who I can look up to with it.

  • But--

  • Yeah, no.

  • I think it's-- like I said, I think a lot of people watching

  • now that, you know, maybe didn't hear you say it before will be

  • like, well, I have it, too.

  • And that's great.

  • Mhm.

We're back with Billie Eilish.

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