After previously loathing “everything about it,” Billie Eilish is suddenly “digging” fame.

Eilish spoke up about living with stardom in a recent episode of the SmartLess podcast, which is co-hosted by actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes.

“The parts I hated three years ago, those are the parts that I’m digging now.

“Fame, in general, I used to just despise it, I hated everything about it. I hated being recognized, I hated not being able to go out, I hated not being able to post a place because then people would show up at that place wherever it was because they’d figure out where it is.”

“And I felt stupid, because I had this thing that’s really cool, people would kill for, and I didn’t like it at all.

“When I say I love fame, it’s just I think we should be aware we have an incredible thing that we get to do.”

But she has confessed that she now enjoys it since she has gained confidence in it because she like what she is doing with her fame, whereas in the past she thought she had to constantly prove herself.

“There were some years where I felt like I had to prove myself all the time, especially to the kids I grew up with,” she said.

Eilish said that when she would go to events in her hometown with other kids her age, she thought they viewed her as a “joke,” and that she “had to prove that I was actually doing pretty well.”

Billie has been placed in “weird situations” in the past by her loyal fans, and had to ask the help of her staff to talk with people queuing for meet-and-greet sessions to ensure “boundaries” were in place.

She said: “[The devotion] makes you kind of crazy. We all know the feeling of seeing yourself and being like, What is going on with me, I’m acting insane.

“When you’re excited about something, you forget boundaries and you forget what’s polite and what’s kind of not polite.

“I’ve had a lot of weird situations – people will kiss me and pick me up, spin me around …

“It is definitely important to have the boundaries and also have people around you that can help in a situation like that.

“I never want to push away somebody that’s showing me only love. And even if it’s coming from a place of crazy love, I don’t ever want to push that too far away.”

Eilish’s next project is the Apple documentary The World’s a Little Blurry, which will premiere on Apple TV+ on February 26. Listen to the SmartLess conversation with her and Finneas below.