Grimes and Elon Musk share three children together but it hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the businessman and the singer and they officially called it quits in 2022
As Grimes and Elon Musk hit the headlines over the controversy about their kids being brought to the White House – we take a look inside their fractured relationship.
The businessman, 53, and the singer, 37, were together for four years before calling it quits in 2022. But have been back and forth with one another in the press.
Most recently Grimes was at it again, voicing her concerns about keeping her children away from the prying eyes of the public. The Canadian songstress is mum to X Æ A-12, aged four; Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, three; and Techno Mechanicus, two – she shares all three of her brood with tech mogul and ex Elon, who’s been spotted cosying up to US President Donald Trump.
But before we get into all that, let’s take a look into how they got into this situation…
The pair made their first red carpet debut as a couple in May 2018, shortly after reports surfaced of their budding relationship. Though it has been a bit rocky from the off, with them parting ways and reuniting more than once throughout their four years.
It was seemingly confirmed that they were back on again when the singer announced in January 2020 that she was pregnant. Two months later, she revealed in a Rolling Stone profile that the Tesla CEO was in fact the father of her child.
The duo “experienced a lot of ups and downs in their relationship,” around this time according to a source who told Us, “[They] have been on and off. Through it all though, they have and will continue to maintain a close friendship.”
In July 2020, Musk’s “pronouns suck” post sparked controversy and she publicly commented: “I love you but please turn off ur phone or give me a [call]. I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart.”
Though in April 2021, she came to Musk’s defense after TikTok users accused him of being a “men’s rights activist,” responding with, “He’s not. Def he’s been very immature at points on Twitter but for [example] the president of spaceX is a woman, as is his right hand [person] at Neuralink, etc.”
In September 2021, the tech guru revealed they had split after three years together, writing in a statement: “[We] still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms.” This was shortly followed by Grimes’ song titled ‘Love’ which she wrote at the time of her breakup. A lyric from the track reads: “It f****** sucks to be awake / Oh, Lord, I pray my soul to take. Nobody understands because everything they hate is everything I love.”
In a March 2022 Vanity Fair profile, she also shared that the pair welcomed their second child, daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, via surrogate pregnancy in December 2021. “I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid,” she commented at the time. “We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time. … We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand.” Though just several hours after the article was published, Grimes shared that the pair had ended things.
Skip to September 2023, and the former partners welcomed their third child, son Techno Mechanicus. A year after they split, Us Weekly confirmed that she was suing her ex for parental rights of their kids and filed a “petition to establish parental relationship”.
In 2024, she also revealed to fans that she had not seen one of her kids for “five months” amid her ongoing custody battle with Musk. She wrote on X: “Having babies rips you apart and puts you back together. Babies are ten thousand philosophy classes of s— you can only learn from that experience. Spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights having my instagram posts and modeling used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids and fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me, with a fraction of his resources (or iq/ strategy experience).”
Last week, the Tesla expert was seen dragging their kids into the political arena, which followed a surprise on Grimes last month by bringing their eldest, X, onto a live White House broadcast without giving her the heads-up. This month, little X got to hang out with his dad as Trump sang praises for Tesla wheels in front of the White House.
Grimes recently took to X to address this issue while responding to a fan about a bogus post that’s been circulating since 2022, pretending to be her talking about the “sexuality and kinks” of “Fortune 500 CEOs.”
She reposted the spoof with a quip, but when a fan quizzed: “How to protect your children from this? Can’t you wipe this garbage from the internet? Art imitates life and I hope you find a solution.”
Grimes admitted: “I’ve seen how the internet destroyed one of my children’s life, if I had the resources, I’d do everything I could to keep them far from the realities they will face one day. Hopefully, once they are matured and can understand the satire.”
The singer directly addressed the issue, stating: “I unfortunately do not control the internet and cannot wipe this from the internet. I have tried begging the public and my kids dad to keep them offline, and I’ve tried legal recourse. I follow you here I’ve seen young ppl destroyed by the internet too.”
She continued: “The state of my children’s lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day. It’s insane to me that theres no way to deal with this. I would hope there was some law that would allow a parent to veto small children from living public lives but I don’t even trust the law to help me now if I tried to invoke it tbh. We are in the Wild West of information content and the dismantling of privacy and it’s very concerning.”
Just last month, she also pleaded with him to communicate with her so they could seek medical help for one of their children, warning of a potential “life-long impairment” without intervention.
In addition to claiming she’s been trying to get in touch with Musk, Grimes has previously expressed her disapproval of her children being showcased “around like Michael Jackson’s Chimpanzee.”
Earlier this year, in January, she declared: “I have made it clear I do not approve of that in every conceivable way I know how. I am desperate to solve it. It is a personal tragedy to me. But currently I don’t know how to do that.”
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