Megan Markle has thanked Billie Eilish after she sent merchandise to a fan who lost a T-shirt from one of her concerts in the LA wildfires.
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The Duchess Of Sussex shared a video on Instagram thanking the singer for her efforts after Markle and her husband Prince Harry met a mother and her 15-year-old daughter whose home perished in the fires.
“Her mom shared something with me, and said that when they came back to see their house for the first time, which is as we were meeting them, that all she’d been looking for in her home was the T-shirt from the Billie Eilish concert that she had just gone to,” Markle said.
She added: “And so I said, ‘I don’t know Billie Eilish. But I’m going to figure out how to get you this shirt.’ So I thought of everybody that I knew and I made a voice note and I was like, ‘Please, can someone get this voice note to Billie Eilish? Here’s what I’m asking.’”
Markle revealed that she “reached out to the singer directly with a voice message, asking if she could send a new one”. With the help of Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and his wife Behati Prinsloo, Eilish responded by sending not just a T-shirt but an entire package of merch, including a signed record.
She added with the merchandise in hand: “To everyone who is showing up for people in big and small ways to get through what’s happened in California. Just thank you so much. I’m going to go and email her mom now. Just wanted to share that with you guys.”
Eilish has been instrumental in helping those affected by the LA wildfires teaming up with Green Day for a live rendition of ‘Last Night On Earth’ at the recent FireAid benefit concert while also performing her own concert at the event with with her brother Finneas.
She was also quick to share links to resources on social media when the wildfires first broke out.
Elsewhere, despite not winning at the Grammys earlier this week, she performed ‘Birds Of Feather’ with her brother at the LA ceremony.