Billie Eilish has admitted she feels "ashamed" about her past after a video of her mouthing a racist slur resurfaced.
The Bad Guy singer, 19, came under fire when the video of her using the word 'ch*nk' - an offensive slur referring to a person of Chinese descent - was shared online.
In a second clip, Billie appeared to be mocking an Asian accent, while her brother Finneas later called her out for speaking with a "black accent".
In a new interview with Vogue Australia, Billie opened up about how she feels about her past actions.
"It's really weird how the world can see every aspect of your life and reminisce about [it]. It's so weird," the singer said.
"The internet brings up things from everybody's past and I'm like: 'Don't you guys understand that everybody is incredibly embarrassed and ashamed about their past?'"
She continued: "Like, do you not think about the fact that maybe you're embarrassed of your past, so maybe everybody else is embarrassed, too?"
"I said so many things then that I totally don't agree with now, or think the opposite thing."
Last month, Billie issued a grovelling apology after the video from more than five years ago was spread online.
She posted a lengthy statement on her Instagram Stories, in which she said she was so upset by her actions when she was a teen that she “wanted to barf”.
Billie was singing along to Tyler The Creator’s 2011 song Fish.
One of the verses in the track features the lyrics: "Slip it in her drink and in the blink, Of an eye, I can make a white girl look ch*nk."
"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 began.
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"This song was the only time I’d ever heard that word as it was never used around me by anyone in my family.”
“Regardless of my ignorance and age at the time, nothing excuses the fact is that it was hurtful. And for that I am sorry,” she reiterated.
Billie went on to defend herself against the claims that in the video she was talking in a way that mocked Asian accents, and insisted that it was a “silly gibberish made-up voice” she’d been using to speak to her family and friends since she was a child.
“It is absolute gibberish and just me goofing around, and is in NO way an imitation of anyone or any language, accent, or culture in the SLIGHTEST,” the Guinness World Record-holding musician stated.
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