'Appalled' Billie Eilish apologises for racial slur in resurfaced video

LONDON - Billie Eilish has apologised after a video surfaced appearing to show the American singer mouthing a racial slur and putting on accents.

In a statement posted on Instagram, the multiple Grammy Award winner said she was "appalled and embarrassed" by the edit, which she said was from when she was 13 or 14 years old and in which she can be seen mouthing the slur. "I am appalled and embarrassed and want to barf that I ever mouthed along to that word," Eilish, now 19, said.