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Grimes is opening up about her custody battle with ex Elon Musk.
The 36-year-old Canadian singer — real name Claire Elise Boucher — alleged that she went five months without seeing one of her and Musk's three children thanks to "a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights."
Grimes — who shares children X AE A-XII, 4, Exa Dark Sideræl, 3, and Tau Techno Mechanicus, 2, with Musk — claimed her Instagram posts and modeling work were "used as reasons I shouldn't have my kids," in an emotional post shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, November 20. (Musk owns the social media platform.)
She also seemingly referenced the breakdown of her relationship with the tech giant, 53, admitting that she was "fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me." Noting Musk's massive wealth, Grimes also pointed out that she was fighting "with a fraction of his resources (or iq/strategy experience)."
The "New Gods" singer claimed that this heartfelt admission was only part of what she's been going through, "since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors." The X post came four months after Grimes' mother, Sandy Garossino, used the platform to ask Musk to see her grandchildren.
She begged the Tesla CEO to allow the three children to visit her mother, who was in palliative care, writing, "I am alarmed to learn that the children cannot come as you are withholding them and their needed passport documents from Claire (Grimes' given name)."
"I write with a grandmother's plea, asking you to honour your agreement, return the children, and provide the documents they need to see their great grandmother before she passes," she begged via X.
My new shit is so elevated beyond that - after everything I've been thru - I am keeping the best of book 1 for the new stuff but I've never been better in my life than right now, and I spent a lot of my time off with babies getting in my ten thousand hours of creative writing and…
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) November 20, 2024Grimes and Musk, who were first romantically linked in 2018, confirmed their split in 2021 — though they have since been in a contentious custody battle, each suing the other for the rights to care for their children. Musk also has nine other children from previous relationships.
Back in September 2023, Musk sued Grimes "to establish the parent-child relationship" with their three children, claiming the singer moved to California "in an apparent attempt to circumvent jurisdiction" of Texas courts. She responded with her own suit, requesting physical custody of the children, including a "standard restraining order" that would prevent the children from being moved out of California by either parent, per Business Insider.
The former couple's custody battle in Texas was listed as "closed," the clerk's office in Travis County, Texas (where Musk filed suit) confirmed to the publication on Wednesday, November 20. The office declined to share further details.
Despite the hardships, Grimes shared it had led to her "improving deeply" as a producer and as an artist. She warned, "So I hate to waste everyone's time, but I have to make what I'm making right now. And it might be upsetting and provocative to many, but it's real and the people who will feel me will feel me."
She ended the post on a more positive note, sharing how thankful she was for all that she has gone through.
"I'm grateful for every bullet I caught. Cuz I feel on top of the world right now. And everything that used to give me anxiety feels like child's play after all this. Ego death, ego birth - it's everything an artist could dream of," Grimes concluded the emotional post.
Musk has not publicly responded to her claims as of yet.
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