Grimes is opening up about her year-long custody struggles for her and Elon Musk's three children. Elon and Grimes share two sons, 4-year-old X Æ A-Xii, 2-year-old Techno Mechanicus, and Exa Dark Sideræl, 3. The singer took to X (formerly Twitter) to pen a lengthy statement on November 20, detailing the "battle" she has been dealing with.
Born Claire Elise Boucher, Grimes reflected on how the fight took a toll on her mental health, career, and self-identity. She also revealed that as a result, she has been "going bankrupt." She said, in part:
"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), all the while I didn't see one of my babies for 5 months."
Grimes' mother once penned an open letter on X, pleaded with Musk to let the children go
Read Grimes' statement below, posted on Musk-owned 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 mastering the art which I've never had - but I think I'm in new sound design territory too, I feel like I found my Atticus Ross as well in my friend VADAKIN, and I feel like I have to follow the path I'm on. Having babies rips you apart and puts you back together. Babies are ten thousand philosophy classes of shit you can only learn from that experience."
Grimes and Musk's legal disputes date back to October 2023. Per NBC News, the former filed a petition against her partner to establish parental rights. Their case was dragged through courts in California and Texas, and was eventually settled in December of that year, though the exact terms of the same remain under wraps.
The Genesis singer then went on to reveal that she was once forced to spend months without one of her children, before adding:
"And this is only what can be said publicly, since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors. Poetry and pure raw emotion are pouring out of my soul at a rate I've never known, and Im improving deeply as a producer past the technical and back to the art after now knowing my craft so much better. + I've found the creative partners I've always wanted. 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."
The 36-year-old ended her statement by noting that she was "grateful" for what she has been through, because she feels "on top of the world right now." She divulged that everything that was once anxiety-inducing for her now feels like "child's pay."
In July, Grimes' mother, Sandy Garossino, penned an open letter to the father of her grandchildren, pleading with him to allow her to see the kids. She claimed that he withheld their passports in an attempt to stop them from seeing their sick great-grandmother. She wrote on X:
"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. Please Elon, I beg you. This is so painful for my mother, and concerning for the kids. Time is of the essence now."
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Musk, who has often expressed his desire for a large family, has long been concerned about the Earth's dwindling population. He shares 12 children with various women: six children with his first wife, Justine Wilson, three kids with ex-partner Grimes, and two with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
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