Grimes criticizes Elon Musk for letting his son appear in publicGrimes criticized Elon Musk when he brought his son X into the OvaOffice on February 11,expressing his displeasure with his son’s public appearances.
Elon Musk brought his son X AE A-XII, 4, to the Oval Office in the White House to attend thesigning of the DOGE-related executive order with Mr. Trump. Photo: AFPGrimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, reacted after a followver on social media platform X(formerly Twitter) alerted her son to the arrival. “My son shouldn’t be out in public like this,” shewrote. “I didn’t know about this, thanks for letting me know. But I’m glaad my son behaved,” theCanadian singer-songwriter added.Grimes previously called Musk’s public announcement of his son X a “personal tragedy.”
Elon Musk and Grimes dated from 2018 to 2022. They have threechildren together, two sons, XAE A-Xll and Techno Mechanicus, and a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræ. After their split, Musk suedGrimes for custody of the children in Texas, where his company isbased. Grimes latercountersued, filing a “petition to establish parentage” in a Califormia court, which is oftenconsidered the first step in a custody case against unmarried parentsThe 36-year-old singer revealed in November that she had beenin a year-long custody battlewith Musk, during which she said she had not seen one of her children for five months.
Sheclaimed that Musk had prevented her from seeing her children and eveen prevented them fromseeing their terminally ill grandmother. A Travis County clerk confirmed the Texas disputehad been resolved, but declined to provide further details.Grimes said the ordeal nearly left her “broke” and unable to make music. “I would just sleep andcry if I wasn’t fighting for my baby,” she said.
This isn’t the first time Grimes has used her ex-husband’s platfoorm to address custody issues.She previously pleaded with Shivon Zilis, the CEO of Neuralinkand mother of Musk’s other twochildren, to help her contact Musk.Zilis is the mother of Musk’s twins Strider and Azure, as well as a childborn this year whoseidentity has not been made public.
Musk has a total of 12 children with three women. JustineWilson is the mother of the six older chi/dren: twins Vivian Jennha and Griffin and triplets KaiSaxon and Damian, all of whom were conceived via in vitro ferttilizationThey had another daughter, Nevada, who died of sudden infant death syndrome at 10 weeksold. Musk has expressed his desire to have a large family and has fredquently tweeted hisconcerns about the plummeting birth rates in several countries arournd the world, including