BILLIE EILISH remembers the moment she no longer felt comfortable in public.  She was 16, and she had just finished up a three-month tour.  She went ice skating with a friend in L.A.

She told “V” magazine, “It was a nightmare and it scared the living hell out of me, because I was just turned into this prop.  I’ve never been so scared.  It was like, a huge stampede.

“In those three months, I’d gotten bigger, but I didn’t know it until I was in that situation.  From that day on, I didn’t go anywhere.  I didn’t do anything.  I was so flipped out by what had happened and how powerless I felt.

She added, “I didn’t have security because I didn’t have the money for it.  I was the level of fame that needs security, but also the level of fame where you don’t really have the resources.”