Grimes talks custody battle with Elon Musk: “I didn’t see one of my babies for five months”

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Grimes has spoken out about her custody battle with ex, Elon Musk, claiming that she “didn’t see” one of her children for five months.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 two announced their split in September 2021, confirming that they had broken up after three years together but “still love each other”.Now, the artist has taken to social media to recall her experience of the custody battle, and the ways in which it allegedly affected the time with her children.Taking to X (formerly Twitter, before Musk acquired and renamed it last year), Grimes wrote: “Having babies rips you apart and puts you back together.

Babies are 10 thousand philosophy classes of shit [that] 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 modelling used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids.“Fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognisable to me, with a fraction of his resources (or iq/ strategy experience), all the while I didn’t see one of my babies for five months.