Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas slams ‘outrage’ over singer’s anti-ICE Grammys 2026 speech
He is not a bad person.
Billie Eilish’s brother, Finneas, came to the singer’s defense amid “outrage” over her anti-ICE remarks at the 2026 Grammys on Sunday.
“Seeing a lot of old white men upset about what my 24-year-old sister said when she gave her acceptance speech,” she wrote on Instagram Threads on Wednesday.
“We can literally see your names in the Epstein files,” added Finneas, 28.
The siblings, in particular, won the award for song of the year over the weekend for “Wildflower,” and Eilish insulted Immigration and Customs Enforcement while on stage.
“I feel honored every time I come to this room,” he began his speech. “The way I feel I am grateful, in fact I don’t want to say anything except that there is no illegal person in the stolen world.
“Yeah, it’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now,” the songwriter continued. “I feel really positive in this room, and I feel like we need to keep fighting and talking and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and people do matter, and fk ICE.”
Eilish concluded, “That’s all I have to say. Sorry, thank you very much.”
She and Finneas both rocked “ICE OUT” pins at the awards show, along with Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber and other A-listers.
The Tongva tribe that owns the land beneath Eilish’s $3 million Los Angeles mansion praised her for “donating[ing] the appearance of the real history of this country” in the statement.
However, they commented, “We hope that in future discussions, the nation can be clearly referred to.”
Eilish isn’t the only winner to call out a federal agency during the awards show, with Bad Bunny doing the same.
The soon-to-be headliner of Super Bowl 2026, winner of the best urbana album and album of the year for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” began his first speech with the message “ICE out”.
The bad rabbit continued, “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are human and we are Americans.”
He urged those present to “be different” and “fight … with love” as “hate grows stronger with more hate.”
Similarly, Kehlani told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet, “F–k ICE. We’re too strong of a group to all be in a room at the same time and not make some kind of statement to our country, so it doesn’t make sense to me.”
Jelly Roll, for his part, neglected to talk about the subject and called himself an “untethered redneck…
He promised the media, “I’ll face it next week, and everyone will hear exactly what I’m going to say about it in the loudest and clearest way I’ve ever spoken in my life. So I’m looking forward to it on the Internet.”
