Grimes & Chelsea Manning broke up, roughly four months after they moved in

I’ve been trying to forget Grimes’ stupid Manic Pixie Dream Girl interview with Vanity Fair several months ago, although I guess the timeline is important. Grimes covered the April issue of VF and described her relationship with her “boyfriend” Elon Musk, saying that they lived separately and he wasn’t financially supporting her or their two children. The VF piece was also where Grimes “accidentally” revealed the existence of their second child, Exa, who was born via surrogacy in late 2021. By the time the VF issue came out, Grimes and Elon Musk were over. We now know that when their surrogate was nearing her due date, Musk welcomed twins with one of his executives too.

Shortly after the VF interview came out, Grimes was in the gossip news for another reason: she moved on quickly from Musk and had begun dating Chelsea Manning. They were living together in Austin, Texas almost as soon as they met. Well, now they’re over.

That was fast! Singer Grimes and whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, who just started dating in March, have broken up, a source tells Page Six. Another source tells us the pair “had been breaking up for a while.”

Page Six first exclusively revealed the duo were an item in March. The pair linked up after Grimes, 34, had split from the father of her two children, Elon Musk, for the second time. A source told us at the time that Grimes and Manning were “getting serious. They U-Hauled it. They’ve been living together in Austin.”

We were told that Manning, 34, had also kept her apartment in Brooklyn.

The same month it had been revealed in a Vanity Fair story that Grimes, real name Claire Boucher, had welcomed a second child via surrogate with Musk. She told the reporter she would “probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends.” By the time the piece had printed though, they’d split.

We hear the “Oblivion,” singer is currently back on the dating scene.

[From Page Six]

Can these people stop being so chaotic for six solid months? My God. For all of Grimes’s anti-capitalist fairycore, she ended up having two children with a white supremacist Republican, then did a four-month live-in relationship with a convicted felon who had her sentence commuted by President Obama. And Grimes has two small children for whom she is the sole provider. Just… buy a house, get a mattress, sue Elon for child support and settle down. Update: I mean, it’s a statement of fact, Manning is a convicted felon.

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  1. Bettyrose says:

    Amen and hallelujah! I bet those kids are gonna be accountants, though. Driving Volvo SUVs to their modest suburban homes.

    • Christina says:

      No lie! Kids many times become the opposite of their parents. It must be stressful being a toddler with parents who need constant stimulation.

      • SarahCS says:

        Totally. My parents were full on hippies (we lived on a boat for a while and visited various countries, lived illegally in the back of dad’s studio, I didn’t start school until I was 7…) and I took myself off to university, got a profession and have been happily working in an office ever since, paying my mortgage too once I saved up enough for a deposit!

      • Sera Quill says:

        @SarahCS – genuine question. Would you change your childhood for a more ‘normal’ one? (please do pardon my use of that word ‘normal’, I do not mean any disrespect). I had a semi-erratic childhood/adolescence as well, with frequent relocations, which gave me easy people skills (I can move between different social groups/ages very easily) however I feel like I have no roots, no place to call home, you know. To answer my own question, I would change my childhood in order to form roots, cause I feel like a tumbleweed now (that relocating lifestyle continues, due to my own choice now). So, I was wondering re: what you would choose? And has your upbringing instilled a change in you that makes you different from your current peers?
        If you ever see this message, and reply, thank you! And if neither happens as well, that’s okay as well, it was nice having a brief glimpse into your childhood. Take care 🙂

  2. tealily says:

    She’s such a mess.

  3. Shirurusu says:

    I don’t think Grimes is 1/10th as messy as Elon getting women pregnant left and right, buying/ not buying twitter, being a general ass about everything. Grimes is unstable but Elon is a piece of work, cant blame her for being wobbly after being involved with him. We should be calling Elon messy if anything.

    • DeluxeDuckling says:

      Word. The guy is a PoS

    • bettyrose says:

      ITA but there’s so much more with Musk. I don’t even really want to talk about him because he’s such an awful human and not interesting celeb gossip. Grimes is the right kinda messy for fun CB threads.

  4. Anne says:

    This is the type of messy gossip I’m here for.

  5. Christina says:

    Oh honey, Elon is a MASSIVE mess!

    They both seem egotistical to me, but what do I know? Grimes says one thing, but her life doesn’t appear to match what she is selling. They both seem chaotic and hopelessly self absorbed, but he is much worse.

  6. Vera says:

    Well technically Nelson Mandela is a convicted felon too.

    morally right is not the same as legally right

  7. nosyoldlady says:

    Yikes. Grimes, get child support. Your baby daddy is a horrible billionaire. Take the money and run. Or do these children need more help?

  8. Rhonda says:

    Grimes looks a lot like Kira from The Dark Crystal in that cover pic.

  9. Bisynaptic says:

    “… he wasn’t financially supporting her or their two children.”
    —She can’t possibly really be that stupid.