Billie Eilish breaks down at BRIT Awards, says she 'felt hated recently'

This was moments after she performed her James Bond theme song, 'No Time To Die', live for the first time

An emotional Billie Eilish broke down at the 2020 BRIT Awards on Tuesday evening after admitting social media trolls had made her 'feel hated.' According to Daily Mail, the American star won the award for Best International Female Artist from Spice Girl Mel C, moments after performing her James Bond theme song, No Time To Die live for the first time.

Addressing fans at London's O2 Arena, a visibly moved Billie told the star-studded audience, 'I wanted to say something that I was thinking like two seconds ago… I’ve felt very hated recently."

Struggling to compose herself, she added, 'And when I was on the stage and I saw you guys smiling at me, it genuinely made me want to cry, and I want to cry right now, so thank you.’

Billie recently discussed her decision to take a step back from social media, and specifically stop reading the comments on her Instagram posts. She told BBC Breakfast, 'I stopped like two days ago. I've stopped reading comments fully. It was ruining my life. It's weird. The cooler the things you get to do, the more people hate you."

She went on to address the 'Cancel culture' calling it 'insane'. She said that the internet was a bunch of trolls and the problem was that a lot of it was really funny. "It's anything for a joke. People say anything to make people laugh," said Billie.

"I should've stopped long ago but the problem is I've always wanted to stay in touch with my fans and people have ruined that for me and for them. That sucks."

She added that she still tries to like fan posts. "If I see fans anywhere I just want to talk to them. They're people, they're me. They're like friends of mine, but the internet is ruining my life, so I turned it off."

Ahead of her BRITs performance, the Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter revealed all about the creative process behind her latest James Bond theme song.

Billie sat down with her producer and co-writer brother Finneas O'Connell, telling BBC presenter Louise Minchin that Bond himself had to approve their track No Time To Die.

Finneas explained that Bond star Daniel Craig is involved in every aspect of their movie franchise, including the theme song.

"He had to like it. If Daniel doesn't like it then you don't get the job," he said.

The duo wrote the song for the 25th Bond movie on a tour bus in Texas over just three days, after failing to get the creative juices flowing in the studio.

"We've been wanting to make a Bond song for years. I remember at the beginning of last year we told our whole team that if any Bond things come up we want to be involved if we can possibly be," Billie revealed of her long-held ambition.

Finneas agreed, explaining, "There are few things as desirable as doing a Bond song and we didn't take the opportunity lightly. We really just tried to work as hard as we could to prove ourselves worthy of that."

Before performing the track live and impeccably at the BRIT Awards, Billie had revealed how scared she really was.

"We've never performed it ever, so it feels so weird that it's in the public, especially now that I'm performing it and I'm hitting a note I've never hit before. I'm scared."

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