Billie Eilish has apologized after a video surfaced appearing to show the American singer mouthing a racial slur and putting on accents.
In a statement posted on Instagram, the multiple Grammy Award winner said she was “appalled and embarrassed” by a compilation edit of videos from when she was 13 or 14 years old.
In one clip, she can be seen mouthing the slur while lip-syncing along to Tyler, The Creator’s 2011 song, Fish. In her statement, Eilish said that at the time she didn’t know that the word “was a derogatory term used against members of the Asian community.”
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