FREINDS AND PAYROLLL.......

Friends and payroll do not  mix ........you cannot  put  friends on  payroll .........it is  business........  it does not  mix  ..........thinking you are  helping your  friends .......... ask mike  Tyson.........  he  suffered  the  same  shit  .......friends....... and  money ....... do not  mix  at all .......if you  want to  find  out who your  friend is !!!!!!!  .....lend  them  twenty bucks ........ and then ask it back or wait till they  are  going to give it  to you  ....never   mix  friend ship and money   .......ever   bad  combo....  ....like   seaweed and  popcorn on a pizza.........just an  analogy  ....not that anyone  would......... if they did .....no  friend of  mine at all ......... seaweed and popcorn  ......yuk    ....fuck!!!! .......maybe Billie  eilish thought  her  friends  were   cool........ like here .........  do not  employ  friends.........  it always  ends ......  tits ups!!!!!!!......friends  always  expect  more  than  employees.......... and  fucking  favours  .......no  fucking way  !!!!!!!.....do not do business   with  friends   ever  .......it  always  ends up bad  ........friends ..........always  ends up pains  in the  ass ........and believe........ this or not......... friends will conspire  against you behind your back /................happens ......do not  believe me ......billie is  learning the  hard  way ......

Billie Eilish Just Recalled The Sad Moment She Realized That The People On Her Payroll Aren’t Her Friends

“It was my 20th birthday, and I remember looking around the room, and it was only people that I employ.”

Stephanie Soteriou

BuzzFeed Staff

Posted on June 11, 2024 at 4:55 am

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Billie Eilish was just 14 years old when she was catapulted to global fame following the release of her song “Ocean Eyes,” which her brother Finneas produced and the pair posted to the internet without a record deal.

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Needless to say, she was officially snapped up by a label soon after, and has enjoyed record-breaking success in the music industry ever since.

At just 22 years old, Billie has nine Grammy awards and two Oscars under her belt, and her career shows no signs of slowing down.

But achieving this level of fame at such a young age did not come without its pitfalls, with Billie revealing during a recent podcast appearance that she lost all of her friends when her career took off.

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Speaking on Monday’s episode of Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver’s podcast, Miss Me?, Billie said that she went through a phase of thinking that her team were her friends before realizing the harsh truth that they are only around because they’re on her payroll.

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“I lost all of my friends when I got famous, like, literally all except one — my best friend Zoe, who I have been friends with since I was two,” Billie began. “She’s pretty much the only person that remained, you know? I suddenly was famous, and I couldn’t relate to anybody and it was really hard.”

When asked if she’d tried to maintain her friendships amid her career, Billie admitted: “I think I felt resentful… I was so young; everything I felt back then, I don’t think I would even stand by. Literally, the world was being handed to me on a silver platter, like: ‘Would you like this?’”

“So all of my friends became my employees, which I felt was fine, and I was like: ‘What do you mean? I have friends, I have so many friends!’” Billie continued. “Then it was my 20th birthday, and I remember looking around the room, and it was only people that I employ, and I was like, hmm. And all 15 years and more older than me.”

“Then one of my best friends who worked with me quit out of the blue and didn’t talk to me,” the star recalled. “And it was the worst thing that happened to me, and that made me realize, like, Oh, wait, this is a job, and these are really people that if they left me, they wouldn’t ever see me again. I kind of had this realization, like, Oh, I might actually be alone for real.”

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Billie also said that she would often find herself in romantic relationships where her partner was her only friend, so she would stay with that person longer than she probably should have because they were all she had.

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Eventually, Billie made a proactive effort to expand her circle, explaining: “I’ve become very distant in that way from people that I work with, and I have a very weird relationship to being friendly with people that I work with because I’m very freaked out by loss and I have a lot of abandonment problems.”

“Then I worked really hard on friendship and making friends and making new friends and rekindling old friendships,” she went on. “About exactly a year ago, I reconnected with a bunch of old friends, and now I have so many friends; I have a crew now! I could literally cry about it. It’s been the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.”

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In fact, the difference in Billie’s life is so apparent that when she went to a Coachella party earlier this year with a whole bunch of friends, her longtime security actually commented on the fact that there were other people with her because they weren’t used to it.

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That same evening, Billie said that she “burst into tears” because she was so happy to have friends at last. 

“I could not go on,” she added. “I couldn’t go on without friends. My friendships are, like, the best part of my life.”

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Billie also recalled how sad she’d feel when listening to Lily's hit single “Smile” because she couldn’t relate to the lyric about friendship.

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She said: “You have that line that’s: ‘With a little help from my friends, I found the light at the tunnel at the end,’ and I used to want to cry hearing that line because I didn’t feel that way because I didn’t have any friends.”

“I remember thinking: ‘I want to feel that way, and I want to listen to this song that I relate to in every way and hear that line about friends and be like: My friends got me through,’” Billie added. “Instead, I was, like, rawdogging life.”

Thankfully, all’s well that ends well, with Billie concluding: “I feel like I’ve found my people, and I’m going to just keep finding them.”

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