Twenty-year-old Billie Eilish grew up in front of the world as the singer’s popularity continued to rise, between her chart-topping music, the Academy Award winning James Bond song and even more recently get her own Simpsons short. With that, Eilish used her platform to talk about body image, climate change, encourage young people to vote, and in a recent interview with David Letterman, she opened up about Tourette’s syndrome.
During her 45-minute chat with the former late-night host on Netflix My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David LettermanThe conversation naturally arose when one of Eilish’s tics caused Letterman to initially ask her if she was okay. The couple got into a discussion about her experience with Tourette’s syndrome, which she was diagnosed with at the age of eleven. In her words on the Netflix series:
I actually like answering questions about this topic because it is very interesting and I am very confused about it and don’t understand it [Laughs]…I never get punished at all, because the tics that I do constantly throughout the day are like, rock my ears back and forth, raise my eyebrows, press my jaw and do that, I like my arm here, I flex this arm, I flex this muscle. These are things you would never have noticed if you were just having a conversation with me. But for me, it’s very stressful.
Tourette syndrome is a nervous system condition characterized by sudden, repetitive, rapid, and unwanted movements or vocalizations called tics, in which National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The singer who shows physical rather than verbal spasms, She confirmed that she had a nervous disorder Back in 2018 when she was 16 years old after her compilation videos of her nudes started popping up on the internet. Eilish also spoke about her experience with Turrett Letterman in these words:
It’s really strange. I didn’t talk about it like at all. The most common way people react is by laughing because they think I’m trying to be funny. They think I’ll go like [imitates one of her tics] Like a funny move. [Laughs]. So they go like “Ha!” And I’m always incredibly humiliated because of that or them [turn their head behind them] and go “what?” Then I go, “I have a Turrett.”
When the singer first shared that she has Tourette’s syndrome on her Instagram, she said she’s never talked about it before because she doesn’t want people to think of the disorder every time they think of it. Since she shares it, living with Tourette’s syndrome isn’t easy and can often be “stressful,” but after talking about it, she’s been accessed by other famous people who have it. In her words:
The funny thing is that so many people have it that you’ll never know. Two artists came forward and said, “I’ve always had Tourette’s syndrome,” and I’m not going to take them out because they don’t want to talk about it, but that was really interesting to me. I was like ‘You’re doing?! What?’
Recently, Billie Eilish has been checking out some major career heights. singer recently She became the youngest artist to make the headlines at CoachellaShe and her brother, Phineas O’Connell, were also awarded Opportunity to write music for Pixar turns red after previously Writing the final James Bond theme For Daniel Craig 007. When she spoke to David Letterman, she went on to share her relationship with the disorder:
It’s not like I like it, but I feel like it’s a part of me. I made friends with her. Now, I’m very confident of that. When I move, I don’t affect at all. When I ride my horse, I don’t complain. When I move and think and focus, when I sing [I’m not ticcing].
You can watch the full Billie Eilish interview at My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman With Netflix subscription Along with the episodes that appeared Will Smith, talking about protecting his familyCardi B, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Durant and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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