Billie Eilish says she started watching 'violent' porn when she was 11: 'It destroyed my brain'

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By Nika Shakhnazarova

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Billie Eilish has revealed that she was hooked on watching "violent" pornography at the age of 11.

The singer, now 19, said that an early interest in porn had damaged her sex life and mental health for years to come.

"As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace," she said on Monday's episode of The Howard Stern Show, per TMZ. "I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest. I started watching porn when I was like 11."

"I think it really destroyed my brain, and I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn," she added.

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The singer told Stern that she believes the violent and "abusive" pornography that she watched contributed to her sleep paralysis and night terrors.

"It got to a point where I couldn't watch anything else unless it was violent; I didn't think it was attractive," she said. "I was a virgin. I had never done anything. And so it led to problems.

"The first few times I had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good," she continued. "And it's because I thought that that's what I was supposed to be attracted to."

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"I'm so angry that porn is so loved," she added. "And I'm so angry at myself for thinking that it was okay."

Eilish went on to describe ways that porn created unrealistic expectations for women's bodies while discussing the damaging consequences of porn.

The singer was quick to slam how porn portrays women, adding that the way "vaginas look in porn is f**king crazy".

"No vaginas look like that. Women's bodies don’t look like that. We don't come like that," she added.

The singer-songwriter recently appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform her hit song 'Male Fantasy' - which includes lyrics about Eilish watching porn to cope with a breakup.

"I can't stand the dialogue / She would never be that satisfied / It's a male fantasy / I'm going back to therapy," she sings in the first verse.

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