Grimes is brushing off a recent social media move by Elon Musk, framing it as a distraction from what she says actually matters: raising their kids.
Per People, the musician revealed that Musk blocked her on X, the platform he owns, after users noticed the two no longer followed each other. Addressing the speculation directly, Grimes downplayed the situation and made it clear she has no interest in turning it into a public feud.
“For context I’m just living my life,” she wrote in a reply on X. “He followed me then blocked me. I’m not gna be following and unfollowing. My only priority is co parenting, I am not interested in public dramatics.”
She added bluntly, “This is so silly lol.”
Grimes, 37, and Musk, 54, were first connected in 2018 and share three children together: son X Æ A-Xii, born in 2020; daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, born via surrogate in 2021; and son Techno Mechanicus, born in 2022.
In October 2023, Grimes filed a petition to formally establish parental rights for all three children. A year later, she disclosed that the legal battle had stalled her music career.
In a post shared in November 2024, she described the experience as deeply disruptive, writing that she had “spent a year locked in battle” and alleging that social media posts and modeling work were used against her in court. She also said she went months without seeing one of her children.
Public tension resurfaced when Musk appeared in the Oval Office with their oldest child, X, who was four at the time. Grimes said she had no advance knowledge of the appearance. “He should not be in public like this,” she wrote after learning about it through X. “I did not see this, thank u for alerting me.”
Grimes also addressed the backlash in an interview with TIME, pushing back against headlines that portrayed her comments as attacks. “It was a reply,” she said. “But I would really like people to stop posting images of my kid everywhere.” She added that she believes “fame is something you should consent to.”
That concern came up again when Grimes responded to a question about parenting in the internet age. “I have tried begging the public and my kid’s dad to keep them offline,” she wrote, adding that legal options haven’t brought peace of mind. “The state of my children’s lives being public is of grave concern to me.”