• Singer Billie Eilish defended her friendship with rapper Drake in a new interview with Vogue.
  • “The internet is such a stupid-a– mess right now. Everybody’s so sensitive,” Eilish said.
  • After the 18-year-old singer revealed online last year that she’d been texting with Drake, who is 15 years older than her, fans began criticizing the Canadian rapper.
  • “You’re really going to say that Drake is creepy because he’s a fan of mine, and then you’re going to go vote for Trump?” Eilish said in the interview.
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“Bad Guy” singer Billie Eilish defended her friendship with Drake in a new interview with Vogue.

Eilish, who just turned 18 in December, casually revealed in November that Drake, who’s 15 years older than her, had been texting her, ostensibly to talk about music. After the news broke, fans began criticizing the Canadian rapper for messaging a teenager.

“The internet is such a stupid-a– mess right now. Everybody’s so sensitive,” Eilish said. “A grown man can’t be a fan of an artist? There are so many people that the internet should be more worried about.”

The young singer went on to call out what she felt was the hypocrisy of some concerned fans.

"Like, you're really going to say that Drake is creepy because he's a fan of mine, and then you're going to go vote for Trump? What the f--- is that s---?"

Eilish first spoke about her friendship with the rapper in late 2019, telling Vanity Fair that Drake was "the nicest dude I've ever spoken to."

"I mean, I've only, like texted him," Eilish said in the interview, "but he's so nice. Like, he does not need to be that nice - you know what I mean?"

After Eilish opened up about her friendship with the older rapper, Twitter users expressed their concern at the fact that Drake was texting a then-17-year-old musician - with some even pointing out that he'd similarly texted "Stranger Things" star Millie Bobby Brown, who was 14 at the time.