she’s not a bad person.
Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas has defended the singer amid “outrage” over her anti-ICE comments at the 2026 Grammy Awards on Sunday.
“Seeing so many very powerful old white men outraged over what my 24 year old sister said in her acceptance speech,” he wrote via an Instagram thread on Wednesday.
“We can literally see your name in Epstein’s file,” Finneas, 28, added.
Notably, the brothers won song of the year for “Wildflower” over the weekend, with Eilish slamming Immigration and Customs Enforcement on stage.
“I feel so honored every time I walk into this room,” she began her speech. “While we are grateful, we don’t feel the need to be honest other than to say that no one is illegally living on stolen land.
“Yeah, it’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now,” the songwriter continued. “I feel really hopeful in this room. I feel like we need to keep fighting and speaking out and protesting. Our voices really matter, people matter, and ICE.”
Eilish concluded, “That’s all I want to say: I’m sorry. Thank you so much.”
She and Finneas rocked “ICE OUT” pins at the awards ceremony, along with Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber, and other A-listers.
The Tongva tribe, which owns the land beneath Eilish’s $3 million Los Angeles mansion, praised her in a statement for “bringing visibility to the real history of this country.”
However, they said, “It is our hope that we can explicitly mention this tribe in future discussions.”
Eilish wasn’t the only honoree to criticize federal agencies during the ceremony, Bad Bunny was too.
The headliner of the upcoming 2026 Super Bowl halftime show won Best Music City Album and Album of the Year for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” and began his first speech with the message “ICE OUT.”
Bad Bunny went on to say, “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.”
He called on those in attendance to “fight being different” and “fight with love” because “the more hatred there is, the stronger it becomes.”
Similarly, Kehlani told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet, “Fk ICE. We’re such a powerful group that it would be ignorant to me to not all be in the same room at the same time and make some kind of statement in this country.”
Jelly Roll, on the other hand, neglected to speak on the subject, calling himself an “isolated…stupid redneck.”
He promised reporters, “I’m going to go through this next week and everyone is going to hear exactly what I have to say about this issue in the loudest and clearest way I’ve ever spoken it in my life. So I’m looking forward to it on the internet.”
