Overview
- Eilish told Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast that she holds back her tics during interviews, then lets them out once she leaves the room.
- She said her vocal tics are usually quiet sounds, while motor tics in her knees, elbows, and fingers can run nonstop out of sight.
- The singer explained she suppresses to avoid being distracting on camera, calling the effort exhausting and noting not everyone with Tourette’s can do it.
- She likened some vocalizations to intrusive thoughts spoken aloud and said people often misread clusters of tics as a crisis when they are normal for her.
- Outlets contextualized her comments with renewed public focus on Tourette’s after a BAFTAs incident and with her 2022 Letterman interview about a diagnosis she received at age 11.