• Billie Eilish said in an Elle interview that “eating meat is inherently wrong” and that you can’t love animals and eat meat at the same time.
• After swift backlash, she doubled down by posting graphic slaughterhouse videos to her Instagram Stories on May 7.
• Eilish told critics to “stay f**king mad” and said she’s “tired of standing up for/having empathy for living beings being controversial.”
• The singer has been vegan since age 12 and has a long history of animal rights activism.
• The controversy comes as she promotes her new 3D concert film, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D).

Billie Eilish has never been one to back down from a fight — and this week, she made that very clear. After declaring in a video interview with Elle that “eating meat is inherently wrong,” the 24-year-old pop star faced a wave of online criticism. Her response? Graphic slaughterhouse footage and a message that left absolutely no room for misinterpretation: “So stay f**king mad at ME. I really don’t give a goddamn f**k.”

The whole thing started on April 28, when Eilish sat down with Elle and was asked the simple question: what’s one hill you’d die on? She knew exactly what she was walking into. “Y’all not gonna like me for this one,” she warned, before delivering her take: “Eating meat is inherently wrong.” She didn’t stop there. “Two things cannot coincide: ‘I love all animals so much and I eat meat.’ You just can’t do both. Sorry! You could eat meat, go for it. You could love animals. But you can’t do both.”

The internet reacted exactly as she predicted. Critics called her take “very privileged” and pointed to issues of food access and health. “This is a very privileged position to have,” one user wrote on X. “The body functions better when we eat meat. If we cut it out, we’d need to take many supplements and that’s not feasible for most.” Others simply called her a hypocrite.

Eilish let it sit for about a week. Then, on May 7, she answered.

The Instagram Response That Got Everyone Talking

Rather than issue a measured statement or quietly move on, Eilish went to her Instagram Stories and posted a series of graphic videos documenting violence against animals inside slaughterhouses and the dairy industry — most of which Instagram flagged for sensitive content. The clips were raw and deliberately uncomfortable, and they were followed by a message directed squarely at her critics.

“Go watch a documentary or two and some footage of what is done to the animals u claim to love and what it does to the planet u pretend to love as well,” she wrote. “If that footage was hard for u to watch I encourage u to pls take a look at urself. Like I am so tired of standing up for/having empathy for living beings being controversial. Pls continue to live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance and denial and try to convince urself that ur not living a lie. mwah.”

That final “mwah” might be the most Billie Eilish thing she’s ever written.

A Belief She’s Held Since Childhood

This isn’t a new position for Eilish — it’s one she’s built her life around. Raised as a vegetarian, she went fully vegan around age 12 after learning about conditions in the meat and dairy industries. She’s spoken about it openly for years.

“I learned about the dairy industry and the meat industry, which I already knew about,” she said in a 2021 Vogue video. “Once you know about that kind of thing and you see it, it’s really hard to go back. And, even now, while I have many friends that eat dairy and meat and I don’t want to tell anybody what to do, I just can’t go on in my life knowing what’s going on in the animal world and not doing anything about it.”

Her activism has shown up in her career in concrete ways too. In 2021, she wore an Oscar de la Renta gown to the Met Gala after the fashion house agreed to stop selling fur — a condition she negotiated before agreeing to wear the dress. “It’s shocking that wearing fur isn’t completely outlawed at this point in 2021,” she said at the time. That same year, she and her brother Finneas joined Farm Sanctuary’s 35th anniversary livestream, celebrating the country’s first farm animal sanctuary. And while promoting her 2024 album Hit Me Hard and Soft, she famously did meatless versions of both Hot Ones and Chicken Shop Date.

This isn’t a phase. It’s who she is.

Still, the debate her Elle comments ignited touched on real tensions — around food access, economic privilege, and whether a multimillionaire pop star is the right messenger for a plant-based gospel. Those are fair conversations. Eilish, for her part, isn’t interested in having them. She’s made her position clear: watch the footage, then talk.

All of this is unfolding as Eilish is in full press mode for Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The Tour Live in 3D, her new concert film currently in theaters. The film’s premiere in Los Angeles also marked the public debut of her boyfriend, actor Nat Wolff, on the red carpet — a rare personal moment for a star who’s been anything but quiet this week.

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• Billie Eilish and Nat Wolff made their official red carpet debut at the May 6 premiere of her concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
• The couple has been romantically linked since March 2025, with kissing photos from Venice confirming the relationship that June
• Wolff, 31, is an actor and musician best known for Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and Nickelodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band
• He and his brother Alex Wolff opened for Eilish on her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour and bonded with her over their shared experience with Tourette syndrome
• The concert film, co-directed by Eilish and James Cameron, opens in theaters May 8

Billie Eilish has officially hard-launched her relationship — and she did it in style. The Grammy-winning singer and her boyfriend, actor Nat Wolff, stepped out together on the red carpet Wednesday night at the Los Angeles premiere of her new concert film, Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), making it their first official public appearance as a couple.

The two smiled, hugged, side-hugged, front-hugged, and leaned into each other for the cameras at the Fox Westwood Village Theater — the kind of easy, comfortable body language that tells you everything you need to know. At one point, Wolff rested his cheek on top of Eilish’s head while she beamed at the cameras. A second shot showed them embracing and laughing, looking completely at ease.

Eilish, 24, wore an oversized emerald green Ralph Lauren polo layered over a white long-sleeve button-down, paired with a black pleated skirt, red crew socks trimmed in navy, and cream kitten-heeled pumps with ombré toes and sneaker-style laces. It’s the kind of look that shouldn’t work — prep, punk, and jock all at once — but absolutely does. Wolff, 31, kept it classic in a brown double-breasted suit over a white shirt, no tie.

They were joined on the carpet by Eilish’s brother and longtime collaborator Finneas O’Connell and his girlfriend Claudia Sulewski, her parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, and the film’s co-director, James Cameron. The Avatar: Fire and Ash filmmaker co-directed the concert movie with Eilish, which chronicles her sold-out four-night run in Manchester, England last year and hits theaters on Friday.

Who Is Nat Wolff?

If you’re not already familiar with Wolff, here’s the quick version: he’s a 31-year-old Los Angeles-based actor and musician who got his start alongside his younger brother Alex on Nickelodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band, a mockumentary series about their lives as kids in a band. He went on to build a solid film career, landing roles in The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Stuck in Love, and Death Note.

He and Alex still make music together as Nat & Alex Wolff. And as of late 2024, that band had a pretty high-profile gig: opening for Billie Eilish on the US leg of her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour.

Alex Wolff, for his part, is probably best known to horror fans for his role in Hereditary. The brothers are a package deal in the best possible way.

How Billie and Nat Actually Got Together

The story of this relationship starts, as many good ones do, with a shared experience that cuts deeper than small talk. Eilish, Nat, and Alex all have Tourette syndrome — and that’s what first bonded them.

Alex met Eilish at an Oscars party in March 2023. “Billie and me and my brother, we all have Tourette’s. And I think we all have bonded over that,” Alex told Variety. “Even when I saw Billie on interviews, I said, ‘Oh, she’s one of us.’ We know all the ways that we try to mute ourselves or try and chill ourselves out or soften ourselves for other people, and how nice it is to not have to do that for certain people.”

Nat met Eilish separately at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles, where they also connected over their Tourette’s. By April 2024, the three of them were at Coachella together, documenting it on Instagram. That June, Nat starred in the music video for Eilish’s song “Chihiro” — a self-directed clip she described as representing the characters’ “inescapable connection.” Following its release, Wolff posted on Instagram calling Eilish “my (favorite) artist and (favorite) human” and praising her as “not only a genius singer and songwriter but also an amazing director and editor.” Eilish responded in kind: “One of my favorite videos I’ve made and truly one of the greatest days of my life. Nat, love you so much. Thank you for being a part of this.”

In a 2024 Vogue cover interview, Eilish called Nat and Alex “some of my best friends in the world.” Nat, in the same piece, was characteristically effusive about her: “She’s one of those people where almost everything she does, she does better than everyone else. She’s like, ‘Come see me ride my horse,’ and the teacher says, ‘You know, if she put all her energy into it, she could go to the Olympics.’ You just have to kind of submit to the fact that she’s going to be better than everyone else at everything.”

Romance rumors started swirling in March 2025, when Eilish and Wolff were spotted leaving the iHeartRadio Music Awards together, then bar-hopping across New York. Sources told Page Six at the time that they were “very affectionate.” Other sources pushed back, insisting they were just close friends. Then came June 2025.

DeuxMoi dropped photos on June 8 of the pair kissing on a private balcony in Venice — sipping Champagne, smooching, cuddling on a gondola ride through the canals. Wolff was photographed grabbing Eilish by the cheeks and kissing her, and snapping photos of her with a digital camera. The internet, predictably, lost its mind. An insider confirmed to Us Weekly shortly after: “Their friendship blossomed into a relationship. It’s going well. She’s smitten.”

The months that followed were quiet — no major sightings, no official statements, which is very much in keeping with Eilish’s stated approach to her private life. In her 2024 Vogue interview, she had been clear: “I’m never talking about who I’m dating ever again.” She’s spoken openly about regretting how much her previous relationships played out in public. “I guess I underestimate that things I say will be blown up into the biggest news of the whole world. That’s so unnatural. We’re all babies. We’re all little kids growing up and learning ourselves,” she said.

Then, in February 2026, the couple turned the Grammy Awards into a date night, photographed cozied up together at their table. Eilish also publicly supported the Nat & Alex Wolff self-titled album on her Instagram Stories. And then came Wednesday’s premiere — the full hard launch, red carpet and all.

In a 2026 interview with Interview magazine, the brothers reflected on what they took from the experience of touring with Eilish, saying they learned “how to be a world class artist with grace” and how to make fans “feel so special and beloved.”

The concert film that brought them all to the carpet together, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), is Eilish’s third concert movie and her first since Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles in 2021. It opens in theaters Friday. And up next for Eilish: she’s reportedly set to make her acting debut in The Bell Jar, Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel, where she’ll play lead character Esther Greenwood.

But for now, she’s got a boyfriend on her arm and a movie opening this weekend. Not a bad week.

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