9-Year-Old Girl Tells Mom Why She Broke Up With Her Boyfriend: ‘The Ick’

A nine-year-old has shared the hilarious reason she got “the ick” and broke up with her boyfriend.

There are many irrational or inexplicable reasons someone might “get the ick,” a sudden pang of dislike following certain behaviors from someone.

For one 4th-grade school girl, Willow, her boyfriend’s playground antics became too much to bear and ultimately led to the end of their relationship.

In hilarious footage amassing 43.2k likes and 306.7k views Willow’s mom, Jade Crawford, (@jadecrawf) captured her daughter’s dramatic storytelling where the girl revealed the relationship-ending ick: her boyfriend tried to chase her and her friends and eat their hair.

Crawford, 32, a lettings and sales executive from East Yorkshire, U.K., told Newsweek: “Willow is hilarious and so sassy. She always comes home from school with a story.

“I never film her and I had no idea what was coming, but I knew it was going to be good.”

When Willow got into her mom’s car after school, she revealed she had broken up with her boyfriend because he had given her “the biggest ick” ever.

The nine-year-old explained she was talking with her girlfriends at recess when her boyfriend approached them and started chasing them, complaining he was hungry.

Next, the boy started trying to eat the girls’ hair and put his arms out in zombie fashion chasing the girls, Willow explained.

After telling her boyfriend to go away, he went and sulked near a wall, she said.

Willow explained in the video: “I was like, ‘I’m breaking up with Charlie because I’m not having him eat my hair.'”

The girls then chased Charlie, and Willow and her friend Bonnie decided to tell Charlie it was the end.

Charlie said he did not believe Bonnie and needed to hear it from Willow.

Willow told him: “I’m breaking up with you.”

According to Willow, he responded: “IDC (I don’t care) about your life.”

The animated nine-year-old aspires to be in the limelight and grow up to be an influencer; she attends acting classes and models, Crawford explained.

She is an only child but spends a lot of time with her 13 cousins who are all under 10.

Crawford says her daughter always returns home with a new story and it usually involves boys. The mom said the playground gossip was not dissimilar to the reality TV show Love Island.

She said: “It’s always relationships, like, ‘my boyfriend has dumped me for my best friend’ or ‘he’s just going round the friendship group.’

“They all take it so seriously.”

Crawford said she has to tell her daughter that she shouldn’t spend too much time lamenting over her playground drama, but admitted her only daughter has probably inherited her sassiness and is likely to have picked up words such as “the ick” from overhearing her conversations.