Grimes Begs Elon Musk for Help With Their Child's 'Medical Crisis'
The musician Grimes took to X to publicly pressure Elon Musk to address the serious health issues faced by one of their three children together.
While Elon Musk may be the star of the political drama unfolding in Washington of late, his personal life has come to resemble a soap opera.
On Thursday afternoon, the Canadian musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, replied to Musk on his social platform, X, in evident desperation. āPlz respond about our childās medical crisis,ā she wrote in a response to Musk bragging about the supposed capabilities of the latest version of Grok, his āanti-wokeā chatbot. āI am sorry to do this publicly but it is no longer acceptable to ignore this situation. This requires immediate attention,ā wrote Grimes. āIf you donāt want to talk to me can you please designate or hire someone who can so that we can move forward on solving this. This is urgent, Elon.ā
Grimes did not specify which of their three children was experiencing health problems. The eldest, 4-year-old X Ć A-Xii (or X for short), is often seen with Musk at public events and at the White House. Musk and Boucher waged a two-year custody battle over the kids that came to an end last August, though itās not clear what the terms of their ultimate agreement were.
Musk did not immediately reply to Grimesā plea. It seems the billionaire was busy waving a chainsaw around on stage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C. with Argentine president Javier Milei, whose severe cuts to government institutions were an inspiration to Muskās so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as it began gutting federal agencies last month. But it appeared that moderation decisions were made behind the scenes at X to reduce the visibility of Grimesā post, with users noticing that it was listed as āunavailableā in the thread under Muskās post. The same error message showed up when some users tried to quote the post. Reacting to screenshots showing how her remark had been censored on the site, Grimes replied, ālol,ā though that response was soon removed.
In a followup post, Grimes defended her decision to address Musk online. āIām not giving any details but he wonāt respond to texts call or emails and has skipped every meeting and our child will suffer life long impairment if he doesnāt respond asap, so I need him to fucking respond,ā she wrote, āand if I have to apply public pressure then I guess thatās where weāre at.ā Eventually, she deleted all the posts regarding her fruitless attempts to contact Musk.
The callout came just days after far-right influencer Ashley St. Clair claimed that she had recently given birth to another of Muskās children, which would make her the fourth known woman to have at least one child by him. The baby would be the 13th known living child of Muskās. (His first son with ex-wife Justine Wilson died of SIDS at 10 weeks old in 2002.) Musk, who regularly advocates for increased procreation because of an unfounded belief that humanity is facing population collapse, has not confirmed whether he is the father of a child with St. Clair, though the two have a long history of flirtatious exchanges on X.
St. Clair announced on X on Valentineās Day that she had given birth to a child by Musk five months earlier and had not wanted to disclose it but feared that it would soon be tabloid news regardless. āI ask that the media honor our childās privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting,ā she wrote in her statement. As this news went viral, St. Clair also accused Musk of ignoring her messages about their alleged child together. After Musk replied āWhoaā to a post from far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos, who claimed that St. Clair had āplottedā for years to āensnareā the billionaire, St. Clair replied to Musk: āElon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded.ā In another post, she claimed that Musk had been asking to have more kids with her as recently as the week prior, adding, āI would like to take this offline for our childās sake and have been attempting to [do] so for weeks.ā
Both of those posts have since been deleted. āAshley & Elon have been privately working towards the creation of an agreement about raising their child for some time,ā wrote St. Clairās PR representative Brian Glicklich, in another X statement. āWe are waiting to Elon to publicly acknowledge his parental role with Ashley, and to end unwarranted speculation, and Ashley trusts that Elon intends to finish their agreement quickly, in the best interests of the wellbeing and security of the child they share.ā Almost a week later, Musk has not confirmed that he has a child or had a relationship with St. Clair, and has instead kept busy hyping his Grok product, touting the supposed accomplishments of DOGE, and, at one point on Thursday, calling an astronaut āfully retardedā for challenging a lie he had posted about the reasons that two International Space Station crew members have been stuck in orbit for months without a ride back to Earth.
In a recent podcast interview, Muskās own father, Errol Musk said that he āhasnāt been a good dad.ā The two are estranged in part because Errol, in his 70s, has fathered two children with his former stepdaughter, more than 40 years his junior. Muskās mother, Maye Musk, didnāt mention her sonās latest familial frictions on social media Thursday, but she did log into X to celebrate the confirmation of MAGA conspiracy theorist Kash Patel as director of the FBI, and posted about having fun with Grok.
Meanwhile, St. Clair liked a post of a screenshot of Grimesā now deleted comment about putting pressure on Musk to pay attention to their childās medical needs. The user who had shared the image, columnist Pedro L. Gonzalez, documented the engagement and declared: āAshley St. Clair is on Team Grimes.ā Itās unclear if the two women have communicated about their apparently shared predicament as co-parents with the worldās richest man.