Success doesn't always bring happiness. Billie Eilish, guest of Miss Me?, the podcast by Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver, opened up about a complex moment in her life as an artist: «When I became famous I lost all my friends, I couldn't relate to anyone. It was difficult, it was tough.”
To explain herself better, Eilish brought an explanatory image that she had already used in our cover story: «On my twentieth birthday I remember that I looked around and all the people who were there to celebrate me were people I had hired. And they were all at least 15 years older than me.” As she will soon understand, however, those friendships are not real, but work. In fact, the epiphany arrives when one of her employees, after resigning, stops replying to her: «It was the worst thing that happened to me. She made me realize that for them it was a job and that if they left their job they wouldn't want to see me again.” For some time Eilish has thus developed “abandonment issues”.
The story, however, has a happy ending: «A year ago I reconnected with a lot of old friends and now I have many again. I have my own company. And thinking about it makes me cry, it's the best thing that's ever happened to me.”
