Billie Eilish was visibly startled when a flying object struck her in the face at a recent concert.
On Friday, the 22-year-old singer brought the tour for her Hit Me Hard and Soft album to Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Things took an unfortunate turn near the end of the show while she was performing her hit song “What Was I Made For?”
As seen in fan-filmed footage circulating online, Eilish sat crosslegged on the edge of the stage when a friendship bracelet suddenly hurled in the air and struck her in the face. She gave a disapproving look before finishing the song.
Eilish told The Hollywood Reporter last July that she has years worth of experience of fielding flying objects while performing on stage.
“I’ve been getting hit onstage with things for like, literally, six years, I don’t know why this is, like, new,” Eilish told the Reporter on the red carpet for the Barbie movie in Los Angeles. “People just get excited and it can be dangerous.”
She continued, “I have mixed feelings about it, because when you’re up there it blows. But you know it’s out of love and they’re just trying to give you something. You’re in a vulnerable position, but I’ve been getting hit with stuff for like years.
“Don’t throw things onstage," she added. "But we love you. It’s very sweet."
Eilish hasn’t said anything on the Glendale incident on her social media accounts, but it’s unlikely that she will. In her cover story for Complex’s December issue, the "Birds of a Feather" singer said she mostly left social media “a couple months ago.”
“I really love to interact with the fans when I'm on tour. I love seeing all the videos and all the angles. I love seeing how people are feeling and thinking about the show,” Eilish told Complex’s Eric Skelton.
If I think something looks different, I want to change it," she explained. "So I go on the internet to see the videos that I want to see, but then I get sucked in. Then I get all fucked up, and I’m stuck. So I've been back on it, but I am trying to get off. It's my cigarettes. It's really a problem.
“Some of it's awesome and I love it and I cherish it," she added. "But again, people make that kind of thing really hard. It's sad to me. Some people ruin it for the rest of them."
Read more of Eilish’s Complex cover story here.
