"If you film me for long enough, you're going to see a lot of tics."
Billie Eilish took advantage of an interview for the Netflix program
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by David Letterman, to indulge in some confidences about the Tourette syndrome from which she suffers.
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"It's weird, I don't talk about it at all," she told the famous American host.
More often than not, people laugh thinking I'm trying to be funny.
This reaction always offends me a lot and often they look around pretending not to understand, and that's when I tell them 'I have Tourette'”.
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“I wiggle my ear back and forth, I raise my eyebrow”
Only physical and discreet, his tics are not easy to live with.
“My main tics, which I do all day, are things you'll never notice if you're having a conversation with me, but for me it's really exhausting.
For example, I wiggle my ear back and forth, raise my eyebrow, snap my jaw, or tense my arm muscles,” she says.
Having always lived with them, the singer explains: "I turned them into friends, I learned to trust them."
The young woman does not live her illness in the shadows, quite the contrary.
“I am very happy to talk about it.
In fact, I really enjoy answering questions about it,” she says.
A subject that is still very taboo.
“So many people have it and we will never know.
A few artists have come forward but remain a minority.
And I can understand, I'm not going to blame those who don't want to talk about it."
