Billie Eilish took to her Instagram story after being booed by a group of fans for refusing to sign autographs after appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live last week.
Billie Eilish took to her Instagram story after being booed by a group of fans for refusing to sign autographs after appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live last week.
With a number one single, six Grammy nominations, and a best-selling album, Billie is in high demand lately from her fans and from paparazzi.
As always, she was an absolute joy to watch. No complaints here.
She was accosted by a swarm of paparazzi that booed her for not stopping to sign any autographs.
She set the record straight!
One group was fans and the other was paparazzi and people looking for autographs to sell on Ebay.
She explained that she's recently taken a stand against signing autographs.
"So I stopped [signing autographs]. It was kind of like a policy of mine that I don't."
Anyway, she explained that after mingling with her fans, she went up to the group of paparazzi.
"I was like, nobody here really wants anything from me, besides a [expletive] autograph — which I don't do because they'll sell that [expletive]."
At which point, the booing commenced.
"Then, they all started calling me a 'little [expletive],' and [said] that I'll lose my Grammy nominations."
"The fact that people can switch up like that...damn," she said.
"I'm like 'Bro, I'm 17,'" she said.
"I walked over there only to say hi, only to hug people, and I got pictures of me shoved into my [expletive] face."
She wrapped up her story with one blanket statement for the paparazzi that heckled her.
"I hope you can find someone else that you use to make money off of and belittle. All the best. Love you paparazzi," she concluded.
Earlier this year Billie found herself in a bit of hot water after she was gifted this bright and colorful windbreaker from a fan.
The original jacket-giver saw the tweet above and replied, "That’s me!!! @billieeilish I’m sad to see the jacket never kept you warm," although he's otherwise kept up good spirits about the incident.
Despite the fan who gave the jacket not being upset, other fans were mad that Billie would give away a gift from a fan. ""All she had to do was keep it. She didn’t have to wear it was that so hard lol. She went through the extra effort of giving it away," said one fan.
Of course, some people were defending her. "How tf are people demonizing Billie Eilish for donating a jacket a fan gave her? Like she DONATED it. Also she's famous so clearly she gets tons of gitfs... Even I sell/donate gifts I don't use," tweeted a fan.
Billie Eilish is human, and can't make everybody happy all the time! It's awesome to see her fans stand up for her when it comes to smaller stuff, and it's even better to see her standing up for herself against the paparazzi who booed her.