Billie Eilish responds to rumors she and brother Finneas O'Connell 'had a falling-out': 'How do we move on?'
Billie Eilish responds to rumors she and brother Finneas O'Connell 'had a falling-out': 'How do we move on?'
Raechal ShewfeltWed, April 29, 2026 at 4:58 AM UTC
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Billie Eilish and brother Finneas O'Connell in 2024Credit: Kevin Mazur/GettyKey Points -
Billie Eilish addressed rumors that she and brother Finneas O'Connell, her collaborator, have had a falling-out.
The "Wildflower" singer says she and O'Connell are siblings, and they fight.
O'Connell was absent from his sister's most recent tour.
Billie Eilish knows there are rumors about why her brother and longtime collaborator, Finneas O'Connell, isn't with her as much these days.
"I heard somebody say, 'Did you guys hear Finneas and Billie had a falling-out?'" the singer recalls in an interview published Tuesday in Elle.
The "What Was I Made For?" singer's response was clear: "Finneas and I have never and will never have a falling-out, ever in our lives. We'll get in the biggest f---ing fight you've ever heard of in your life…and five minutes later, we're back, laughing and making music. It's sibling s---. There's nothing else in the world like sibling relationships."
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In fact, Eilish said, much of her work depends on her brother.
"If I never saw Finneas at all, I might literally never make a song again," she said of her older brother. "But how do we move on and have separate lives?"
They gave that a go with Eilish's latest tour, in promotion of her 2024 album Hit Me Hard and Soft, which he contributed to as usual.
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"It was a few years in the making," Eilish told the magazine. "We got so busy that we would only see each other right before going onstage. Finneas and Andrew [her touring drummer], who were the only band members I had back in the day, performed on some sort of platform that was hard to leave. Finneas was stuck in a tower—like Rapunzel! He never said it, but I was feeling like, 'You have more to be doing than being my band member in the back.'"
In the meantime, O'Connell was able to release solo music that he promoted with his own tour.
Like his sister, he's already quite accomplished, with 11 Grammys to his name, compared to her 10.
Finneas and Billie Eilish perform in 2025Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty
"I think that it's the closest I am with Billie to like total trust of anyone," he told CBS News in January 2024. "And total vulnerability. I'm sure there's something that she would be embarrassed to say in front of me, but not much."
He acknowledged that he had missed her when she was gone, and he even popped up at a few dates.
"It's basically true that I don’t like touring, but I love the show part of it," he told Elle. "And I love being around Billie. This past year, when she would be on tour for months, I missed her a lot."
A scene from Eilish's new concert film, Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), shows her reading a note that O'Connell sent her on the road. The James Cameron-directed film arrives in theaters May 8.
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