Pop singer Billie Eilish filed for a restraining order against the 39-year-old man accused of breaking into his parents’ Los Angeles home this month, court documents show.
The order would protect herself, her parents and her brother, musician Finneas Baird O’Connell.
Eilish, 21, said in a statement attached to the application that Christopher Anderson entered the family home in Highland Park “without notice or invitation after apparently professing his love for me and expressing that he really wanted to meet me”.
Anderson had shown up at the house several times before the Jan. 5 incident, though Eilish wrote in her statement that she never contacted him. Police were called five times, Eilish wrote.
Patrick O’Connell, Eilish’s father, wrote in his statement that Anderson approached the house several times in late December, on one occasion ringing the intercom and asking to use the bathroom.
Anderson slipped a cell phone under the door on December 28, then returned the next day and left a white flower and a handwritten note that “professed his love for my daughter Billie, claimed that at some point Billie had watched Mr. Anderson and write songs about Mr. Anderson, and that Mr. Anderson really wanted to meet Billie,” O’Connell wrote.
After the alleged break-in this month, Anderson was arrested on suspicion of burglary, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. He is being held at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic.
Eilish said the incident made her fear returning to her old home.
“Unfortunately, this is not the first time that a stranger has tried to contact my family and me specifically by harassing us outside my family’s house and making professions of love and threats of violence against me,” he said. writes Eilish. “However, each of these occasions, including the present, causes me significant anxiety, fear and emotional distress about my personal safety and that of my father, mother and brother.”
In June 2020, Eilish obtained a three-year restraining order against a New York man who she says exhibited “erratic behavior” by returning home multiple times over the course of two days until he is arrested for trespassing.
“I don’t feel safe returning to my childhood home,” she wrote in her application for a new restraining order against Anderson.
