Grimes Says She Has ‘Begged’ Elon Musk to Keep Their Kids Out of the Public Eye: ‘It’s Very Concerning’

Grimes says that she has “begged” Elon Musk to keep their three children out of the public eye.

In a post shared on X on Thursday, March 13, the musician, 36, wrote that she has “begged” her former partner Musk, 53, to stop showing her children in public and on social media, and has even turned to “legal recourse.”

Grimes (whose real name is Claire Boucher) was responding to a fake post on X that purported to show her talking about the “sexuality” of “Fortune 500 CEOs,” and replied to a fan who asked: “How to protect your children from this? Can’t you wipe this garbage from the internet?”

“I unfortunately do not control the internet and cannot wipe this from the internet,” Grimes answered the fan. “I have tried begging the public and my kid’s dad to keep them offline, and I’ve tried legal recourse. I follow you here, I’ve seen young [people] destroyed by the internet too.”

“The state of my children’s lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day,” she continued. “It’s insane to me that there’s no way to deal with this. I would hope there was some law that would allow a parent to veto small children from living public lives but I don’t even trust the law to help me now if I tried to invoke it [to be honest].”

“We are in the Wild West of information content and the dismantling of privacy and it’s very concerning,” Grimes finished.

Musk previously made headlines when he brought the pair’s oldest child, son X Æ A-Xii, 4, to the Oval Office on Feb. 11 as President Donald Trump signed an executive order granting Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency more power.

Soon after, Grimes shared that she wasn’t aware of her son’s public appearance, only learning about it through an X user.

“He should not be in public like this,” the singer wrote on X at the time. “I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.”

Soon after, the musician also spoke out in an interview with Time published on Feb. 24, and
responded to critics who called her out after criticizing Musk.

“It was like, ‘Grimes slams,’ ‘Grimes speaks out.’ It’s like, OK, it was a reply. But I would really like people to stop posting images of my kid everywhere,” she told the outlet, adding that she believes “fame is something you should consent to.”

“Obviously, things will just be what they are. But I would really, really appreciate that. I can only ask, so I’m just asking,” she added.