Elon Musk's Ex-Girlfriend Grimes Reveals Custody Battle Left Her Bankrupt

She didn’t see one of her and ex Elon’s 3 kids (X Æ A-Xii, 4, Exa Dark Sideræl, 3 and Techno Mechanicus, 2) for 5 months during her ongoing custody battle with the Tesla CEO who she split from in 2022 after 4 years of dating.

"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," Grimes wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Nov. 25, "and fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me."

Grimes (real name Claire Elise Boucher) alleged that she fought him for custody with “a fraction of his resources (or iq/ strategy experience), all the while I didn't see one of my babies for 5 months."

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But the 36-year-old noted that she wanted to keep the details of the challenging time private. As she explained, "This is only what can be said publicly, since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors."

E! News reached out to Elon's PR team at Tesla for comment but hasn't heard back.

And while Grimes said she experienced some lows over the last year, she's also grateful for "every bullet I caught." In fact, it's allowed her to tap into a new type of creativity that led to producing her next album.

"I feel on top of the world right now," she wrote. "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."

She has also recently received a new perspective in other ways besides her custody struggle with Elon, who has nine additional children with X Æ, Techno, and Exa from previous partnerships. And so has motherhood.

"Having babies rips you apart and puts you back together," she said. "Babies are ten thousand philosophy classes of s--t you can only learn from that experience."

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According to court documents obtained by insiders, Grimes and Elon, 53, have been embroiled in a legal battle since the singer of "Oblivion" filed a case against him in October 2023 to establish parental rights.

Their battle has played out in both California and Texas courts, with the cases sealed from public access, per the outlet.

Elon hasn’t spoken publicly about their custody case but Grimes’ mom Sandy Garossino wrote an open letter to him in which she accused him of withholding the passports of the 3 kids so they can’t travel to see their great-grandmother who is ill.

"I write with a grandmother’s plea," Sandy wrote on X in July, "asking you to honour your agreement, return the children, and provide the documents they need to see their great-grandmother before she passes.

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" Please Elon, I beg you," she added. "This is so painful for my mother, and concerning for the kids. Time is of the essence now."

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