Billie Eilish opened up about losing most of her friends when she first found fame with her song Ocean Eyes at the young age of 14.
Even though her best friend Zoe stuck by her side, she found herself mostly surrounded by employees.
“Well I lost all of my friends when I got famous,” she said on Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver’s Miss Me? podcast. “I suddenly was famous and I couldn’t relate to anybody. It was tough. It was really hard.
“And then it was my 20th birthday and I remember looking around the room and it was only people that I employ. And all 15 years or more older than me.”
When one of them left and stopped communicating with her, Billie Eilish realized the professional nature of their relationship and how it impacted her ability to form friendships.
Having fears of abandonment, she now struggles to be friends with those she works with.
However, the singer recently reconnected with many of her old friends and now boasts a thriving social circle with “so many” pals.
“I have a crew now! I could literally cry about it. It’s been the greatest thing that’s happened to me,” she gushed.
Elsewhere in the interview, the Oscar-winning singer admitted she was ghosted by somebody in December.
“To this day, (he) never texted me again,” she recalled. “It was somebody that I’d also known for years and had a plan, the day of, on the phone, making a plan, this is my address, be there at 3pm – never heard from him again. Ever. I couldn’t believe it.”
Billie Eilish later learned that he was dating someone else, adding, “And I was like ‘oh’. But I didn’t know people still did that. I genuinely didn’t know people did that.”
