Grimes Opens Up About Custody Battle With Elon Musk, Says She ‘Didn’t See One of My Babies for 5 Months’

Grimes is sharing a glimpse her difficult year-long custody battle with Elon Musk, with whom she shares three children: sons X Æ A-Xii, 4, and Techno Mechanicus, 2, as well as daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, 3.

“Having babies rips you apart and puts you back together,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter until Musk bought and renamed the platform in 2023). “Babies are ten thousand philosophy classes of s— 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 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. And this is only what can be said publicly, since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors.”

While she didn’t indicate which of her children she wasn’t able to see and why, the “Genesis” artist continued that she is now ready to reignite her creative process, “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.”

She concluded, “And all that said 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.”

Musk has 12 children total. In addition to X Æ A-Xii, Techno Mechanicus and Exa Dark Sideræl, Musk shares seven children with his first wife, Justine Wilson — Nevada Alexander Musk, Griffin Musk, Vivian Jenna Wilson and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian Musk. In 2021, he welcomed twins Strider and Azure with Shivon Zilis.