Billie Eilish is in the top 50 most-followed Instagram accounts with an astounding 108 million followers. But social media success is not all it’s cracked up to be, she says. On a March 2 guest appearance on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, the “Bad Guy” singer admitted she deleted all social media off her phone. “I don’t look at it anymore,” she notes.
Escaping social media can be difficult when the internet is an integral part of celebrities keeping up with their fanbases, but Eilish is happy with her decision, calling it “such a huge deal for me“ given she doesn’t really know a world without it.
“I became a pre-teen, there were iPhones, and as I got a little older, there was all of what has become,” she continues. “But being a pre-teen and a teenager on the internet, those were my people, I was one of them.”
However, fame has distorted Eilish’s relationship with social media. “I was with my boyfriend [Jesse Rutherford] the other day and we were sitting there and this video came up, it was like ‘Billie Eilish is a horrible person.’” She went on to note how convinced the creator of the video seemed to be and mused about how people make definitive statements about her character without truly knowing her.
The 21-year-old doesn’t blame her fans for falling for untrue videos, though. She goes on to say that the internet makes people “gullible“—herself included.
“Anything I read on the internet, I believe,” she said.
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