Billie Eilish Addresses Rumors That She & Brother Finneas Had a Falling-Out
The rumors began when the singer embarked on her first tour without her brother.
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Try as you might to find it, there’s no sibling rivalry here. In her Elle cover story published on Tuesday (April 28), Billie Eilish put to bed rumors that she and her older brother and closest collaborator, Finneas, had a falling-out. The rumors came about when Eilish embarked on the Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour, her first trek without Finneas by her side.
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Despite what fans thought, the choice for Finneas not to hit the road with his sister was not the result of a feud — it was a mutual decision years in the making, according to the sibling duo. And Eilish made sure to set the record straight.
“Finneas and I have never and will never have a falling-out, ever in our lives,” Eilish insisted in her cover story. “There’s nothing else in the world like sibling relationships.”
“We got so busy that we would only see each other right before going on stage,” Eilish explained, sharing that Finneas and her drummer Andrew, her only two band members when she started out, were on a platform that was difficult to break away from. “Finneas was stuck in a tower — like Rapunzel! He never said it, but I was feeling like, ‘You have more to be doing than being my band member in the back.’”
Though the brother and sister came to this decision together, Eilish still felt her sibling’s absence while on tour. In her upcoming concert film, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), Eilish tears up at a good-luck note she receives from her brother. And of course, Finneas stopped by a few of his sister’s tour dates for moral support, even joining her on stage to sing together.
“I love being around Billie,” Finneas told Elle. “This past year, when she would be on tour for months, I missed her a lot.”
Her relationship with her brother isn’t the only thing Eilish opened up about in the interview. In a candid moment of reflection on her signature style, Eilish talked about being inspired by hip-hop legends, the freedom that wearing baggy clothing awarded her and battling internalized misogyny.
“I had a really, really toxic relationship with my body,” Eilish shared. “I had a lot of eating issues. I remember putting on, like, a big shirt and the relief that I felt.”
The 10-time Grammy winner went on to say that the relief came from a combination of her love for hip-hop and a desire to be a man.
“This is the misogyny that we all have within us … which is that I didn’t want to be seen as feminine, and therefore weak,” she told Elle. “It’s not right.”
Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), co-directed with James Cameron, will be released in theaters on May 8.
See Billie Eilish’s Elle cover below:
