Lily Allen reveals she found Billie Eilish’s rider requests ‘triggering’: ‘I cried’-Brooke Ivey Johnson-Entertainment – Metro

The rider specified that the singer couldn’t be around non-vegan ‘materials’ (Picture: BBC Sounds/Planet photos)

Billie Eilish recently went on Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver’s podcast Miss Me? and sent the pair a ‘very intense’ rider ahead of her appearance.

Lily Allen said on the next episode of the podcast: ‘I really did cry when the rider came through.’

Lily’s reaction to the rider was more emotional than Miquita’s, who shared on Good Morning Britain that the rider was ‘very intense’ and revealed the one big demand she had.

She explained that she found Billie’s rider ‘triggering’ because it reminded her of her time as a popstar on a very tight promo schedule.

The Smile singer said of Billie: ‘She was very sweet, I thought, and very calm. The energy around her, the same could not be said…’

Lily continued: ‘It was funny for me because I’ve never seen that side of it before. It was so weird. We talked about it a bit on the podcast last week but I really did cry when the rider came through, because I guess it was sort of triggering to be around somebody in a promo schedule.

‘I’ve been there countless times in my life. It’s always been very stressful, but I had always felt quite unsupported in those situations for whatever reason, and so it was hard for me to see somebody being treated so well, I guess.. surrounded by people who really were looking out for her best interests and really did care.

‘I felt like, with me it was a free-for-all,’ she continued. ‘Like, “Great! She’s said some sensational s***, let’s farm it out and who cares about what the consequences are for her.” So, it’s nice to see that things have changed, or at least she is being looked after.’

Billie, 22, has long been an outspoken vegan and environmental advocate, famously requesting all local vegan snacks ahead of her appearance at Glastonbury in 2022.

But it seems the singer has now taken things further with her veganism as her star continues to rise following the release of her newest album Hit Me Hard and Soft, which dropped in May.

Billie Eilish reportedly sent Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver a ‘very intense’ rider ahead of her appearance on their podcast (Picture: BBC Sounds/Planet photos)

Miquita revealed on Good Morning Britain that Billie’s rider had a lot of very specific instructions.

When asked by GMB host Ed Balls about the star’s rider prior to her podcast appearance, Miquita said, ‘Oh well, the rider was a trip I have to say. It was very intense.’

She went on to explain that it’s Billie’s veganism that makes her demands so large.

She continued: ‘But you know, there’s a lot that she needs because she’s a vegan so there was a lot about materials and what she would allow to be around her and not.’

Her statement seems to imply that the Bad Guy singer asks for all animal products to be removed from her presence entirely – including ‘materials’ like leather and other non-vegan items.

Miquita didn’t seem to have a problem with the demands, continuing: ‘Which is absolutely fine. You know she’s young and there’s like 25 people traveling with her, but she’s very much the calm within her storm and it’s admirable.’

Billie’s appearance on the podcast has already made headlines for the singer’s revelation that she had been badly ghosted by a past romantic prospect.

Lily Allen said Billie’s rider was ‘sort of triggering’ (Picture: BBC)

Ghosting – when someone inexplicably and suddenly cuts off all communication -is a common term in Gen Z culture, and it seems even Grammy winners aren’t immune to the hurtful phenomenon. 

She said: ‘I’ve been ghosted for sure.’ She continued to say that she found it, ‘literally unbelievable. To this day, [he] never texted me again.’

‘I was like, did you die? Did you literally die?,’ she said.

Billie first rose to fame as a young teen with her breakout hit Ocean Eyes and has since won nine Grammys (Picture: John Salangsang/REX/Shutterstock)

Lily and Miquita have long been best friends (Picture: Sylvia Linares)

Eilish explained that she had made plans with the unnamed romantic prospect and then he simply never showed up or contacted her again. 

‘It was somebody that I’d also known for years and had a plan, the day of, on the phone, making a plan, this is my address, be there at 3pm – never heard from him again. Ever. I couldn’t believe it,’ she said. 

Soon, the singer discovered that he was dating someone else.

She described the hurtful revelation, saying: ‘And I was like “oh.” But I didn’t know people still did that. I genuinely didn’t know people did that.’

Metro.co.uk reached out to Billie’s reps for comment.

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