While on the season 4 premiere of David Letterman’s Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Billie Eilish opens about living with Tourette syndrome.

 

 

 

“I’m very happy to talk about it.  I actually really love answering questions about it because it’s very, very interesting, and I am incredibly confused by it and I don’t get it,” Billie begins.

 

“I never don’t tic at all, because the main tics that I do constantly, all day long, are like, I wiggle my ear back and forth and raise my eyebrow and click my jaw … and flex my arm here and flex this arm, flex these muscles. These are things you would never notice if you’re just having a conversation with me, but for me, they’re very exhausting,” Billie added.  She tells David that she was diagnosed when she was 11 ‘after having small physical tics as a kid, which were exacerbated when she was older.’

 

 

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“It’s really weird, I haven’t talked about it at all. The most common way that people react is they laugh because they think I’m trying to be funny.  They think I’m [ticcing] as a funny move. And so they go, ‘Ha.’ And I’m always left incredibly offended by that. Or they go ‘What?’ And then I go, ‘I have Tourette’s.’  So many people have it that you would never know. A couple artists came forward and said, ‘I’ve actually always had Tourette’s.’ And I’m not going to out them because they don’t want to talk about it. But that was actually really interesting to me because I was like, ‘You do? What?’ “ Billie says.

Back in 2018, Billie revealed her diagnosis with Tourette syndrome after her fans made video compilations of her tics.  “It’s not like I like it, but I feel like it’s… part of me. I have made friends with it. And so now, I’m pretty confident in it,” Billie told David.

 

Billie and her brother Finneas then showed David what it was like to put together ‘Happier Than Ever.’  Watch below.

 

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