Grammy award winning young celebrity singer Billy Eilish opened up about life with Tourette’s syndrome. She spoke of how people laughed at what are called “tics” as a result of the syndrome and how she found their laughter offensive. She was only 11 when she began exhibiting tics.

The 20-year old American singer and songwriter discussed her condition during an appearance on Netflix on a show titled, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.” She experienced a tic on camera. It was brought on by the lights and this prompted a discussion on the syndrome.

She said that if she was filmed for a long period, severals tics would appear. She said that she didn’t care and it was “weird” and that she hadn’t really talked about it. She also that that she felt “incredibly offended” when people reacted to the “tics” by laughing.

Eilish also said that the condition was often misunderstood or unnoticed. She found it funny that many people had it and yet people wouldn’t know about it. The “Lovely” singer mentioned that other artists had Tourette’s syndrome but she wouldn’t “out them.”

When Letterman commented that he hoped that the interview had not made her condition worse, she reassured him and said that she loved answering questions about the condition as it was “very interesting.” The “Therefore I am” singer also said that she was “incredibly confused by it” and “I don’t get it.”

Some of the tics that Billy Eilish described as part of Tourette’s were
ear wiggling
raising her eyebrow
clicking her jaw and
flexing her arm.

The “Happier than Ever” celebrity singer said that the symptoms remained unnoticed when someone spoke to her but she found them exhausting. She said that she didn’t like it but it was a part of her, so she had made “friends with it” and was “pretty confident in it.”

Billy Eilish also mentioned that tics didn’t appear when she was performing onstage. They also were not present when she moved about.