In August, the pop artist revealed to Howard Stern that she was infected with the virus: I want to make it obvious that I’m fine due to the vaccine. ‘
Billie Eilish recently claimed that she contracted Covid-19 in August and believes she “would have perished” if she hadn’t been vaccinated.
“The vaccination is fucking great,” Eilish remarked on Howard Stern’s US radio show on Monday. “It also stopped [her brother/musical collaborator] Finneas from getting it; it spared my parents from getting it; it protected my friends from getting it.”
Eilish stated she had been sick with the illness for two months and was still suffering from unspecified side effects.
“I want it to be clear that it is because of the vaccine I’m fine,” she said. “I think if I weren’t vaccinated, I would have died, because it was bad.
“When I say it was bad, I more just mean that it felt horrible. But really, in the scheme of Covid, it was not bad. You know what I mean? When you’re sick, you feel fucking horrible.”
Eilish was recently nominated in seven categories at the 2022 Grammy awards, including album of the year for her second album, Happier Than Ever, and song of the year for the track of the same name.
She also presented Saturday Night Live alongside SNL stalwart Kate McKinnon.
Next June, she will become the youngest ever solo headliner of Glastonbury festival, a show that will conclude her UK and Ireland tour in support of Happier Than Ever.
Eilish’s second album has ranked highly in many publications’ year-end lists, including the Guardian, Billboard and Rolling Stone.
“She and her collaborator brother Finneas brought the same thrill to intimacy as they did to adolescent fears on her debut, tracing the scope of Eilish’s newfound commitment to her own pleasure in dreamy golden-age classicism and hormone-spiking techno,” said the Guardian.
Eilish, the most famous teenage pop star in the world, turns 20 on 18 December.
“I was always very scared of getting older – I dreaded it,” she told the Observer recently. “And honestly, I have almost only found, besides a few hiccups, that I’ve been enjoying just having a little adulthood. Doing things for the first time like getting gas and doing laundry and calling your doctor on your own.”
