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Singer Billie Eilish says watching porn destroyed her brain

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Billie at the Variety's Hitmakers Brunch earlier this month where she and her brother Finneas won the Film Song of the Year Award for their James Bond track No Time to Die. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images)
Billie at the Variety's Hitmakers Brunch earlier this month where she and her brother Finneas won the Film Song of the Year Award for their James Bond track No Time to Die. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Billie Eilish has made a shocking confession: she started watching “abusive” porn at the age of 11.

“I used to watch a lot of it, to be honest . . . It got to a point where unless it was violent, I didn’t think it was attractive. I was a virgin. I’d never done anything. It led to problems,” the 19-year-old said on the Howard Stern Show.

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Billie at JFK Airport earlier this month. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images)

It hurt her sex life later on, she revealed, and she suffered from sleep paralysis and nightmares.

“The first few times I, you know, had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good. It was because I thought that’s what I was supposed to be attracted to.”

The multiple-Grammy award winner clearly despises porn now, describing it as “a disgrace”.

“I’m so angry that it’s so loved and I’m so angry at myself for thinking that it was okay.”
– Billie Eilish

“I think it really destroyed my brain and I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much of it.”

She started watching it, she said, “because that’s how I thought you learnt how to have sex”.

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She even told her mortified mother that was why she had done it.

As far as her love life goes, these days she’s single as people are either “terrified of you or think that you’re out of their league”.

The star, who has returned to her dark locks, previously dated rapper 7:AMP (real name Brandon “Q” Adams) but that relationship ended in June 2019.

Speaking about their break-up, which she instigated, she said on her Apple TV documentary, The World's a Little Blurry, “I just wasn’t happy. I didn’t want the same things he wanted and I don’t think that’s fair for him.

“I don’t think you should be in a relationship super excited about things that the other person couldn’t care less about.”

Since then she’s been linked to actor Matthew Tyler Vorce but neither has publicly denied nor confirmed that they're involved.

Sources: TMZ.com, theblaze.com, the-sun.com

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