Billie Eilish is clarifying that she did in fact come out publicity in a new interview — but she thought everyone already knew that.
The Grammy winner, 21, was asked by Variety over the weekend if she meant to open up about her 𝑠e𝑥uality in their latest November interview with her.
“No, I didn’t, but I kinda thought, wasn’t it obvious?” I didn’t realize people didn’t know,” she said during its 2023 Hitmakers event on Dec. 2.
“I just don’t really believe in it,” she added of the concept of coming out. “I’m just like, ‘Why can’t we just exist?’ I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I just didn’t talk about it. Whoops.”
“I saw the article and I was like, oh… I guess… I came out today!” she continued. “..OK cool. But it’s exciting to me because I guess people didn’t know… but it’s cool that they know.”
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The “Ocean Eyes” singer added that she was “nervous talking about it,” but then quipped: “But… I am for the girls.”
Hours later, Eilish slammed the outlet via Instagram.
“Thanks variety for my award and for also outing me on a red carpet at 11 am instead of talking about anything else that matters,” she wrote. “I like boys and girls leave me alone about it please literally who cares stream ‘what was i made for.’”
Billie Eilish at the Variety Hitmakers Brunch held at nya WEST in LA on December 2, 2023.FilmMagic
Eilish initially spoke out about her 𝑠e𝑥uality in Variety’s The Power of Women issue.
“I never really felt like I could relate to girls very well. “I love [women] so much. I love them as people. I’m attracted to them as people. I’m attracted to them for real,” she said in the article, which was published last month.
Billie Eilish at the 2021 Met Gala in NYC.Getty Images For The Met Museum/Vogue
“I have deep connections with women in my life, the friends in my life, the family in my life. I’m physically attracted to them. But I’m also so intimidated by them and their beauty and their presence.”
At Variety’s Power of Women event, the musician revealed that she “spent a lot of my life not feeling like I fit in to being a woman.”
“I think for a couple years because of that insecurity, I became almost very ‘pick me’ about it, and I would be like, ‘Oh, I’m not like other girls because I don’t do this and this,” she said at the time. “I’ve grown to be very resentful of that period of time because I’m so much more interested in being like other girls because other girls are f—ing tight, and I love women.”
Billie Eilish on Variety’s Power of Women issue in 2023.Photo credit: Victoria Stevens for VarietyWhat do you think? Post a comment.
“This sounds kind of f—ed up, but I have a lot of internalized misogyny inside of me and I find it coming out in places I don’t want it to,” Eilish continued. “And I have to say, with full transparency, I feel very grateful to be a woman right now. I feel very proud, and I feel very honored to be here.”
Eilish more recently split from The Neighbourhood frontman Jesse Rutherford after less than a year of dating.
