It’s sophisticated. Elon Musk and Grimes have had a roller-coaster relationship over time. They have been first romantically linked in Might 2018 and have welcomed two youngsters collectively. However are they nonetheless collectively? Hold studying to search out out their present relationship standing.
Rumors started to flow into that Elon, 50, and Grimes, 34, have been courting in 2018, whereas they confirmed the romance by making their crimson carpet debut on the 2018 Met Gala. The singer – whose actual title is Claire Boucher – later confirmed that they hit it off when he messaged her in response to a tweet she wrote concerning the thought experiment Roko’s Basilisk.
The connection gave the impression to be going robust till August 2018, when rapper Azealia Banks claimed Grimes invited her to Elon’s Los Angeles residence to collaborate on a track. Azealia, 30, alleged that she spent a complete weekend with the SpaceX founder, although he denied the claims.
Following Azealia’s allegations, followers observed that Grimes and Elon had unfollowed one another on social media that very same month. Nevertheless, they have been noticed out collectively in October of that 12 months, and the pair quickly refollowed one another’s social media accounts.
Whereas they by no means confirmed they have been again collectively, Grimes sparked reconciliation rumors in January 2019 by tweeting she was “randomly in China” on the identical time Elon launched the Tesla manufacturing facility in Shanghai.
The couple stored out of the highlight for months till they attended the Recreation Awards in December 2019 collectively. Kim Kardashian proved that Elon and Grimes have been again collectively when the couple appeared in Instagram photos from the fact star’s Christmas Eve bash in 2019.
Issues grew to become critical for the couple when Grimes announced she was expecting their first child collectively in January 2020. Nevertheless, she didn’t affirm that Elon was the daddy till March. “I do truly simply actually love my boyfriend,” she informed Rolling Stone on the time. “So I used to be like, ‘You realize, certain.’”

The billionaire later revealed that his girlfriend gave start to their son, X Æ A-12, on Might 4. “Mother & child all good,” he tweeted on the time.
Following their son’s arrival, a supply informed Us Weekly that the pair “skilled a number of ups and downs of their relationship.”
“[They] have been on and off,” the insider added. “By all of it although, they’ve and can proceed to take care of an in depth friendship.”
The couple continued to air out their drama when Grimes referred to as out Elon on Twitter after he posted “pronouns suck.” In a now-deleted tweet, she responded, “I like you however please flip off ur telephone or give me a [call]. I can not help hate. Please cease this. I do know this isn’t your coronary heart.”
The “Participant of Video games” singer later defended Elon in April 2021 when TikTok customers accused him of being a “males’s rights activist. She wrote, “He’s not. Def he’s been very immature at factors on Twitter however for [example] the president of spaceX is a girl, as is his proper hand [person] at Neuralink, and so on.”
Months later, Elon and Grimes confirmed they had called it quits in September. “We’re semi-separated however nonetheless love one another, see each other frequently and are on nice phrases,” the SpaceX founder informed Page Six on September 24. “It’s largely that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or touring abroad and her work is primarily in L.A. She’s staying with me now, and Baby X is within the adjoining room.”
Simply days after Elon introduced their cut up, Grimes launched a brand new track referred to as “Love.” She defined she wrote the observe in response to the elevated consideration she confronted in gentle of the breakup. “It f—king sucks to be awake / Oh, Lord, I pray my soul to take,” she sings. “No one understands as a result of all the things they hate is all the things I like.”
The Canada native later launched the track “Participant of Video games” in December 2021, which appears to reference her cut up from Elon. “I’m in love with the best gamer / However he’ll at all times love the sport greater than he loves me,” went one lyric.
Months later in March 2022, the songwriter informed Vanity Fair that she and Elon welcomed a baby woman named Exa Darkish Siderael three months earlier through surrogate. “I’d most likely confer with him as my boyfriend, however we’re very fluid,” she mentioned of their relationship standing. “We dwell in separate homes. We’re greatest pals. We see one another on a regular basis. … We simply have our personal factor occurring, and I don’t anticipate different individuals to grasp.”
Shortly after the article got here out concerning the start of their second youngster, the musician confirmed that she and Elon had cut up as soon as once more. “Me and E have damaged up *once more* because the writing of this text haha, however he’s my greatest good friend and the love of my life, and my life and artwork are eternally devoted to The Mission now,” she tweeted on Thursday, March 10. “I believe Devin wrote that a part of the story rly effectively. Sique – peace out.”