Billie Eilish on ghosting and losing friends due to fame

Speaking on the BBC podcast “Miss Me?” with hosts Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver, Eilish said she experienced a “crazy ghosting” last year.

The term refers to suddenly breaking off contact with a friend or partner with no explanation, and Eilish said her experience was “insane” and “literally unbelievable.”

“I was like, did you die? Did you literally die?” she said.

“It was somebody that I’d also known for years and had a plan, day of, on the phone, making a plan, this is my address, be there at 3. Never heard from him again,” said the singer.

Eilish said she later saw that he was dating someone.

“And I was like ‘Ohhhh.’ But I didn’t know people still did that. I genuinely didn’t know people did that,” she added.

Eilish also discussed how she lost her friends when she became famous.

“I suddenly was famous and I couldn’t relate to anybody. It was tough. It was really hard,” she said.

While best friend Zoe was still around, Eilish said, her only other friends were people who were part of her team.

“It was my 20th birthday and I remember looking around the room and it was only people that I employ,” she said. “And all 15 years or more older than me.”