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Billie Eilish Says She Never Wants to Talk About Her Sexuality or Dating ‘Ever Ever Ever’ Again

The star's sexuality has been under the spotlight over the past few years, as she navigates self-discovery.

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish

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Billie Eilsh is stepping away from talking about her love life.

The multi-Grammy winner is the latest Vogue cover star, and in the corresponding article, opened up about embracing her sexuality in the public eye, and that she regrets being so honest about it. “I wish no one knew anything about my sexuality or anything about my dating life. Ever, ever, ever,” she told the publication. “And I hope that they never will again. And I’m never talking about my sexuality ever again. And I’m never talking about who I’m dating ever again.”


She continued, “I guess I also underestimate that things I say will be blown up into the biggest news of the whole world. That’s so unnatural. We’re all babies. We’re all little kids growing up and learning ourselves.”

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The 22-year-old superstar has generally kept her love life private over the course of her career, but has only been publicly linked to men, including The Neighbourhood’s Jesse Rutherford. The couple broke up in May 2023.

However, over the past few years, Eilish has been increasingly comfortable discussing her sexuality and how she is attracted to both men and women. She sang about a female love interest on her Billboard Hot 100 hit “Lunch,” and in her April 2024 Rolling Stone cover story, she said, “I’ve been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just didn’t understand — until, last year, I realized I wanted my face in a vagina.”

“Who f—ing cares? The whole world suddenly decided who I was, and I didn’t get to say anything or control any of it,” she continued in the article. “Nobody should be pressured into being one thing or the other, and I think that there’s a lot of wanting labels all over the place. Dude, I’ve known people that don’t know their sexuality, or feel comfortable with it, until they’re in their forties, fifties, sixties. It takes a while to find yourself, and I think it’s really unfair, the way that the internet bullies you into talking about who you are and what you are.”

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Most recently, in a remix of Charli XCX’s “Guess,” Eilish seductively lusts over a girl wearing “a lacy black pair [of underwear] with the little bows/ The ones I picked out for you in Tokyo.”

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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