Billie Eilish, a Grammy-winning musician, has spoken about her addiction to watching pornography since she was 11 years old, and how it gave her nightmares and ruined her dating life. On Monday, Eilish, who turns 20 on Saturday, was a guest on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show.
“I believe pornography is a shame. To be honest, I used to watch a lot of porn. “I started viewing porn when I was like 11,” the Bad Guy singer claimed, adding that it made her feel cool and like she belonged with the “men.”
“I didn’t see why it was a terrible thing–I believed it was how you learned to have sex,” she explained. I was an advocate and believed I was one of the guys because I didn’t have an issue with it and didn’t understand why it was terrible. I would speak about it and think I was very cool for not having a problem with it and not seeing why it was wrong. “
She said that she believed it had completely damaged her brain, and she was “really heartbroken” that she had been exposed to so much porn. She claimed that she had nightmares as a result of some of the violent and cruel things she had viewed.
Eilish is recognized for her frequently dark lyrics, having been homeschooled in Los Angeles and winning seven Grammy awards.
In the ballad “Male Fantasy,” from her second album, Happier Than Ever, she sings about being home alone and fooling herself with pornography while recalling a failed relationship in the ballad “Male Fantasy.”
Billie Eilish admitted that she is now resentful of herself for believing it was acceptable to view so much porn.
According to Billie Eilish, the problem with porn is that it may warp notions of what is normal during sex. “I didn’t say no to things that weren’t good the first couple of times I had sex. It was because I believed it was what I was meant to be drawn to “she clarified
“I wasn’t saying no to things that weren’t good the first few times I had sex.” She explained, “It was because I felt that’s what I was meant to be drawn to.”
“Porn twisted the notion of permission and other fundamental parts of an intimate connection, which was an issue.”
At the age of 18, Eilish became the youngest person in history to win all four of the major Grammy awards in the same year when she took home the statuettes for new artist, album, record, and song of the year in 2020. She began her career wearing baggy clothes to avoid people commenting on her figure. The singer admitted that dating has become difficult due to her celebrity.
“It’s incredibly difficult to meet people when they’re either afraid of you or believe you’re out of their league,” Eilish told Stern.
When she told her mother, the Bad Guy singer, who turns 20 this week, she said she was “horrified.”
Pornography exposure at a young age, according to experts, can be harmful. According to UNICEF, it can lead to “bad mental health, misogyny and objectification, sexual assault, and other negative repercussions,”
This isn’t the first time the singer has spoken up about the subject. In a song named “Male Fantasy,” Eilish similarly croons about being home alone and diverting herself with pornography.
Eilish claimed in the same interview with Stern that she contracted COVID in August and was sick for two months, and that she believed she “would have died” if she hadn’t been vaccinated.
“I want to make it obvious that I’m fine thanks to the vaccination,” she explained. “I believe I would have died if I hadn’t been vaccinated, since it was that awful.”
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