Billie Eilish is one of the most successful pop artists of our time. She is a world star. And she suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome. On a talk show, she has now told what effects the disease has on her life.
She’s a superstar. At the age of 20, singer Billie Eilish played on the really big stages. But Eilish also suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome. On the US Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” by David Letterman, Eilish has now spoken about her illness and how it affects her everyday life.
“It’s things you’d never notice if you just talked to me,” Eilish said of what she called her tics. She still suffers from seizures today. The ticks are “very exhausting and tiring” for her. She describes the disease itself as “incredibly confusing” and doesn’t understand it. Nevertheless, she has now “made friends” with her. It’s not like she likes the Tourette, “but I feel like it’s a part of me.”
Eilish had ‘little tics’ as a child
That was not always so. She told Letterman that she had “little tics” since she was a child. Ticks that others would have often laughed at. A reaction that was difficult for her to endure. People believed, she said, “I’m trying to be funny.” The musician was then “always incredibly offended”. Eilish was diagnosed when she was 11.
The US star is not the only one in show business who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome, she also knows other artists who have spoken to her about it. The 20-year-old did not reveal who it was. Eilish herself also struggled for a long time with whether she should make her illness public or not. In 2019, on the Ellen DeGeneres talk show, she explained that she didn’t want to be known as “the artist with Tourette.”
When Letterman asked if talking about the disease made it worse for her, she replied, “Not at all.” She even likes to talk about it, after all it is “very interesting”.
The new episodes of the Letterman talk show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” have been on Netflix since May 20th.
