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Billie Eilish tells Stern: Porn destroyed my brain

- BY BRIAN NIEMIETZ

Billie Eilish learned all the wrong things about sex at a young age — thanks to a porn addiction.

The Grammy-winning singer told Howard Stern that she started watching pornograph­y when she was 11.

Eilish made the admission when she appeared on Stern’s SiriusXM show on Tuesday, fresh off hosting last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live.”

“I didn’t understand why it was a bad thing,” Eilish said. “I thought that’s how you learned how to have sex.”

Eilish said that when she told her mom she watched porn, her mortified mother asked why.

“How else am I supposed to learn how to have sex?” the “Bad Guy” singer replied.

According to Eilish, not only did she watch sex flicks, but she was into the rough stuff by the age of 14. “Unless it was violent, I didn’t think it was attractive,” she said. “I was a virgin. I’d never done anything. It led to problems.”

Eilish, who turns 20 Saturday, blames abusive porn for leading her to an unhealthy place that included night terrors.

“The first few times I had sex, I was not saying ‘no’ to things that were not good because I thought that’s what I was supposed to be attracted to,” she confessed. “I’m so angry at myself for thinking it’s OK.”

Now, Eilish finds pornograph­y to be a “disgrace,” particular­ly when it comes to the treatment of women.

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

Just last year, the Grammy winning singer thought she’d be single her whole life. “I got over that pretty fast,” she told the SiriusXM host.

Stern confessed that he still watches pornograph­y, but said he’s glad that he didn’t have access to it during his formative years.

He also said the abusive stuff isn’t his cup of tea.

The 67-year-old added that he doesn’t want to die, because he’d miss his wife, then introduced the Eilish song “Everybody Dies.”

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