Grimes has called out her former partner Elon Musk on social media for allegedly “ignoring” their child’s “medical crisis”.
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Elon 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 couple announced their split in September 2021, confirming that they had broken up after three years together but “still love each other”.
Yesterday (February 20), a desperate Grimes took to X (formerly Twitter) – which Musk owns – to publicly address him, claiming that one of their kids is facing a “medical crisis”. Grimes did not reveal which child she was referring to, and has not disclosed the details of the situation.
She wrote in response to one of Musk’s post: “Plz respond about our child’s medical crisis. I am sorry to do this publicly but it’s no longer acceptable to ignore this situation. This requires immediate attention.
She continued: “If you don’t 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.”
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) February 20, 2025
In a separate tweet to another commenter asking about the situation, Grimes explained: “I’m not giving any details but he won’t respond to texts, call or emails and has skipped every meeting and our child will suffer life long impairment if he doesn’t respond asap, so I need him to fucking respond and if I have to apply public pressure then I guess that’s where we are at.”
@Grimezsz fyi (you probably already know this) but you are currently being shadowbanned – the only way to view your tweets is via your "replies" tab in your profile
your tweet vs how it looks in the thread pic.twitter.com/mxcxOww4zT
— peepeepoopoo (@DeepDishEnjoyer) February 20, 2025
Grimes has since issued a follow-up post that her tweets have been shadow-banned (meaning the public can’t see them on her page unless they check her replies) and that she’s deleting the posts as Musk’s lack of response could turn the situation into “a media circus at the expense of the kids”.
I am deleting them now because if they're being shadow banned and not eliciting a response then all it is is a media circus at the expense of the kids.
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) February 20, 2025
It is unclear if Musk has privately contacted Grimes on the situation, though a public address has yet to be seen.
Last week, Grimes hit out at Musk for parading their son Lil X around the Oval Office as Trump signed an executive order in front of cameras. “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh”
Prior to being notified of her son’s whereabouts, Grimes had taken a moment to praise New York Times journalist Ezra Klein on her X/Twitter account for his podcast which dived into Trump’s first few weeks in office and the swell of MAGA.
“Ezra Klein is a national treasure,” began her tweet. “Brings a right-wing guy on with an opposing viewpoint and they calmly come to a rough consensus analysis of the current situation. Politics desperately needs more of this vibe right now, for everyone’s sanity.”