Billie Eilish used one of her dancers as a body double on stage at the start of her headlining performance at Coachella earlier this year.
“I dressed her in a show look that I had worn before. We got a black wig and we put buns in it and we gave her a mask and sunglasses and she wore my shoes and socks,” Eilish revealed during an appearance on Apple Music 1. The Matt Wilkinson Show ahead of his performance at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival on Friday.
“I put her in the back of the stage and she just stood there while the lights came on and everyone thought it was me,” she continued. “And no one ever knew it wasn’t me, literally no one did. And while she’s up there I put on a big black coat and a traffic vest and a balaclava and just goggles .
The revelation came after Wilkinson asked her if she had ever gone undercover to watch other artists perform during festival stops. “Yeah, but I was a different person back then and it didn’t work out!” I’ve done it though, occasionally in different places, and it’s really good when you’re able to do it,” she replied.
Eilish also recently spoke with The Sunday Times about a wide range of topics, including her struggles with separation anxiety and her openness to the idea of motherhood. The Oscar and Grammy-winning singer credits her ‘crippling, life-altering separation anxiety’ to being homeschooled as a child, and admitted she was struggling. comfortable having children.
Billie also explained that it was a “scary” time to live in America, following the Uvalde massacre and the continuing problem of gun violence. “Why is it normal to be afraid to go to school?” she said. “You go to school and prepare for a traumatic experience or death that will change your life. What? Who? Where is the logic there?
Listen to his interview on The Matt Wilkinson Show here.
