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22nd June 2021
10:26am BST

Billie was also said to be mocking several ethnic communities too in the video.
The singer was keeping quiet about the video, after having defended her boyfriend Matthew Tyler Vorce's old tweets, she eventually took to Instagram to address it.
Heading to Instagram stories, Billie wrote: "I want to address this because I’m being labelled something I am not. There’s a video edit of me going around when I was 13 or 14 where I mouthed a word from a song that at that time I didn’t know was a derogatory term used against members of Asian community."
"I am appalled and embarrassed and want to barf that I ever mouthed along to that word. The other video in that edited clip is me speaking in a silly gibberish made-up voice… something I started doing as a kid and has done my whole life when talking to my pets, friends, and family. it is absolute gibberish and just me goofing around and is in NO way an imitation of anyone or any language, accent, or culture in the SLIGHTEST."
"Anyone who knows me has seen me goofing around with voices my whole life. regardless of how it was interpreted, i did not mean for any of my actions to have caused hurt to others and it absolutely breaks my heart that it is being labeled now in a way that might cause pain to people hearing it."
"We all need to continue having conversations, listening and learning. I hear you and I love you. Thank you for taking the time to read this."Explore more on these topics: