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Billie Eilish Violently Pulled by Miami Show Attendee During Barricade Walk, Footage Shows

The incident took place at Billie's first of three shows in Miami.

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Billie Eilish appeared to be violently pulled toward the crowd by an attendee at her show in Miami on Thursday.

Footage taken from multiple angles shows the nine-time Grammy winner walking near the barricade at the Kaseya Center, where she’s set to perform two more shows this weekend before taking the tour to Orlando. At one point, Eilish is seemingly yanked toward the barricade by someone in the audience. Security then appears to intervene, with one angle showing the person who presumably pulled Eilish falling back into the crowd as another attendee shouts at them.

Eilish doesn’t appear to have publicly addressed the incident as of this writing. However, this isn’t the first time the “Wildflower” artist has faced preposterously disrespectful fan behavior. In December of last year, footage from a tour stop in Glendale, Arizona showed a bracelet being thrown to the stage, striking the singer in the face.

Complex has reached out to a rep for Billie for comment. This story may be updated.

To be clear, such behavior is not only woefully lame, but truly idiotic. Plenty of artists have spoken out about other examples of such dumbassery in action in the past, including (but not limited to) Taylor Swift. Back in 2023, Swift asked fans to refrain from throwing items on stage, regardless of intention, telling the crowd “it really freaks me out.”

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