Billie Eilish recently opened up about the potentially deadly details behind the cover art for her new album Hit Me Hard and Soft.
While appearing in The last show with Stephen ColbertThe 22-year-old actress told the host that she spent six hours underwater with a weight strapped to her body to capture the image.
“That is very real. This was the day after the last Grammys. I had gone to bed at 7 in the morning, woke up, dyed my hair black… and then went to this random place in Santa Clarita. There's a tank in this giant place and it was like 10 feet deep, and I stuck my little butt in there. And I was there for six hours,” Billie said.
She then added that she was “fully dressed” the entire time, wearing “big long pants, giant Pro Club shorts, a long-sleeved thermal shirt, a button-down flannel, a tie, rings, arm warmers and a dumbbell.”
“I had a weight tied to me. I didn't have a plug in my nose, so I basically went underwater for six hours,” Billie shared, adding that she was the mastermind behind the vision and admitted that she “almost died” during the photo shoots “many times.” .
“I need to suffer. Sincere with God, yes. It's not like, 'What can I do that's the most uncomfortable thing I can imagine?' It's more about thinking about the visual before thinking about how it will make me feel,” she explained.
