'I am appalled and embarrassed' - Billie Eilish apologizes for mouthing racial slur 'ch*nk'
The singer is accused of mimicking an Asian accent and using the word 'ch*nk' in undated TikTok videos that resurfaced on Monday
The scandal comes just days after she was accused of 'queerbaiting' in her latest music video
In her Lost Cause video, the singer, 19, frolics with her female pals at a party and puts on an animated display sticking out her tongue while they all pose
Urban Dictionary defines queerbaiting as: 'A marketing technique used to attract queer viewers that involves creating romantic or sexual tension between two same-sex characters but never making it canon or evolving on it'
Earlier this month, Billie's boyfriend Matthew Tyler Vorce apologized for using racist, homophobic, and body shaming slurs in old social media posts
Billie Eilish has said she is 'embarrassed and appalled' after an old video of herself as young teenager mouthing a racist slur resurfaced on TikTok earlier this month, but has denied mocking Asian accents.
The singer, 19, said she was seeking to address the claims stemming from the clips, which were shared by the user @lcxvy, in which she appeared to say the word 'ch*nk', an offensive slur referring to a person of Chinese descent.
In her statement on Instagram, Eilish said she was being 'labeled some thing that [she's] not' in connection with the clips from her early teens.
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