Grimes has insisted in a tweet to Azealia Banks that she was not “dumped” by her former partner Elon Musk.
Musk and Grimes have three children together – X Æ A-12, born in May 2020, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, born via surrogate in December 2021, and Techno Mechanicus, known as Tau, born in late 2023.
The two announced their split in September 2021, confirming that they had broken up after three years together but “still love each other”.
Tweeting in response to Banks, who had called out Grimes for publicly talking about her in a separate tweet, Grimes wrote that her prior comment was “just a funny joke bro” and that she wasn’t “trying to paint u as a villain.”
Banks had also tweeted about Grimes’ break-up with Musk, and the electronic pop artist addressed it: “i didn’t “get dumped”. I bounced. My amazing baby is asleep in my bed beside me, I’m in love. no regrets. Life is as beautiful as u want it to be.”
It’s just a funny joke bro. not trying to paint u as a villain.
i didn’t “get dumped”. I bounced. My amazing baby is asleep in my bed beside me, I’m in love. no regrets. Life is as beautiful as u want it to be.
Ur insanely talented. even after all this, I want u to…
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) December 26, 2024
In a follow-up tweet, Grimes also praised Banks as “the best hater on the planet” and “the da Vinci of insults”.
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Last month, Grimes opened up about her custody battle with Musk over their children, and the ways in which it allegedly affected the time with them. Grimes wrote: “Having babies rips you apart and puts you back together. Babies are 10 thousand philosophy classes of shit [that] you can only learn from that experience.”
She continued: “Spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights, having my Instagram posts and modelling used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids.”
Last year, the musician sued Musk over the custody rights to Tau, claiming that he wasn’t letting her visit him. Shortly after filing the lawsuit, Grimes seemed to suggest that Musk was preventing her from seeing the child. “Tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer,” she wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
This summer, she also shared her mother’s appeal to Musk for the children they share to be allowed to visit her 93-year-old mother – their great-grandmother – who is in end-of-life palliative care.
Musk has 12 children in total (as per Billboard). In addition to the three he shares with Grimes, he also had seven with his first wife, Justine Wilson, and in 2021, he welcomed twins Strider and Azure with tech executive Shivon Zilis.
In September, it was reported in a book that Musk once took a baby name he picked with Grimes and gave it to a secret child he had with Zilis instead.
More recently, Grimes appeared to address Musk by agreeing with Olivia Rodrigo‘s comments that men who want to go into space are “a little too full of [themselves]”, and also offered words of support for his daughter Vivan, who hit back after he said that she was “killed by the woke mind virus”.
As for Banks, earlier this month she issued a cease & desist letter to The 1975’s Matty Healy, demanding $1million (£790,000) in damages following an online altercation between the two in which Healy rounded on Banks after she criticised his friend and collaborator Charli XCX.
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