Pop singer Billie Eilish has filed a request for a restraining order in opposition to the 39-year-old man accused of breaking into her mother and father’ Los Angeles dwelling this month, court docket paperwork present.
The order would shield herself, her mother and father and her brother, musician Finneas Baird O’Connell.
Eilish, 21, stated in a press release included with the request that Christopher Anderson received inside her household’s Highland Park dwelling “unannounced and uninvited after apparently professing his love for me and expressing that he actually needed to fulfill me.”
Anderson had proven as much as the house a number of occasions earlier than the Jan. 5 incident, although Eilish wrote in her assertion that she had by no means communicated with him. Police had been referred to as on 5 separate events, Eilish wrote.
Patrick O’Connell, Eilish’s father, wrote in his assertion that Anderson approached the house a number of occasions in late December, on one event ringing the intercom and asking to make use of the lavatory.
Anderson slipped a cellphone underneath the gate Dec. 28, then returned the next day and left a white flower and a handwritten notice that “professed his love for my daughter Billie, claimed that sooner or later in time Billie had been watching Mr. Anderson and writing songs about Mr. Anderson, and that Mr. Anderson actually needed to fulfill Billie,” O’Connell wrote.
After the alleged break-in this month, Anderson was arrested on suspicion of housebreaking, in keeping with the Los Angeles Police Division. He’s being held within the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic.
Eilish stated the incident has made her scared of returning to her former dwelling.
“Regrettably, this isn’t the primary time an unknown particular person has tried to contact my household and me particularly by stalking us outdoors my household’s dwelling and by making professions of affection to and threats of violence in opposition to me,” Eilish wrote. “Nevertheless, every such event, together with the current one, causes me substantial nervousness, worry, and emotional misery over my private security and that of my father, mom, and brother.”
In June 2020, Eilish was granted a three-year restraining order in opposition to a New York man who she stated confirmed “erratic conduct” whereas returning to the house a number of occasions over the course of two days till he was arrested on suspicion of trespassing.
“I don’t really feel protected returning to my childhood dwelling,” she wrote in her request for the brand new restraining order in opposition to Anderson.
