Billie Eilish loses followers after confirming she’s queer

Los Angeles, Dec 4 : Grammy-winner Billie Eilish has reportedly lost over 100K followers on Instagram after she said that shes queer.

It was reported that the singer lost 117,750 followers in the last 30 days with the peak being on December 3.

On that day, a day after the interview took place, 40,428 Instagram users hit the unfollow button on the Grammy winners page.

During the Saturday interview at Varietys annual Hitmakers Brunch event, Billie discussed her statement about being "attracted" to women in the magazines Power of Women issue last month, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Asked if she had intended to come out in the article, the "bad guy" singer said: "No I didnt.But I kind of thought, Wasnt it obvious?.I didnt realise people didnt know.

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She went on to say she didnt "really believe in the concept of coming out," adding that "Im just like, Why cant we just exist? Ive been doing this for a long time, and I just didnt talk about it.Whoops."

Upon catching wind of Billies remarks, fans quickly took to social media to express their shock.

Eilish also talked about her reaction after the article was published last month.

"I saw the article and I was like, oh.I guess.I came out today!" she recalled.".OK cool.But its exciting to me because I guess people didnt know.but its cool that they know.

Ooh, Im nervous talking about it!" before concluding: "But.I am for the girls.

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