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.”
