Billie Eilish Issues Apology for Mouthing Derogatory Word in Resurfaced Video

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Billie Eilish is issuing an apology after a video resurfaced of the singer mouthing a derogatory term used against members of the Asian community.

The «Bad Guy» singer, who is now 19, said she was around «13 or 14» when she mouthed a word from a song that, at the time, she didn't know was offensive.

The resurfaced TikTok showed Eilish mouthing the anti-Asian slur as she sang along to Tyler, the Creator's song «Fish.»«I mouthed a word from a song that at the time I didn't know was a derogatory term used against members of the Asian community.

I am appalled and embarrassed and want to barf that I ever mouthed along to that word,» she said in a statement posted on her Instagram story Monday.Eilish then addressed a second clip, which showed the.