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Ekin Karasin

Grimes sends desperate plea to Elon Musk about their child's 'urgent medical crisis'

Grimes has sent a desperate plea to her ex Elon Musk to help with their child’s “medical crisis”.

The Canadian musician, real name Claire Boucher, claimed the Tesla founder has been “ignoring” her messages to him about their child’s “urgent” health issues.

Grimes claimed Musk, 53, has been “skipping” meetings about their child, who she said could “suffer life long impairment”.

The 36-year-old wrote, “Plz respond about our child’s medical crisis,” on X on Thursday in response to Musk’s post about his chatbot, Grok.

“I am sorry to do this publicly but it is no longer acceptable to ignore this situation. This requires immediate attention,” she added.

“If you don’t want to talk to me can you please designate or hire someone who can so that we can move forward on solving this. This is urgent, Elon.”

The singer begged Musk not to ‘ignore’ their child’s health problems (X/Grimes)

Grimes did not reveal which of their three children is experiencing health problems. She shares son X Æ A-12, four, daughter Exa, three, and son Techno, two, with the billionaire businessman.

SpaceX CEO Musk - who dated Grimes from 2018 to 2022 - did not reply to her now-deleted plea and has since shared several posts on X.

At the time, he was seen waving a chainsaw around onstage at the the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C. with Argentine president Javier Milei.

Some social media users claimed her original tweet had been “shadow-banned” by X - meaning her posts had become restricted and less visible to others - to which she responded: “Lol.”

When asked why she had made her pleas public, Grimes wrote: “I'm not giving any details but he won't respond to texts call or emails and has skipped every meeting and our child will suffer life long impairment if he doesn't respond asap.

“So I need him to f***ing respond and if I have to apply public pressure then I guess that's where we are at.”

That day, Musk wielded a chainsaw as he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (AP)

Eventually, she deleted all the posts, claiming: “If they’re being shadow banned and not eliciting a response then all it is is a media circus at the expense of the kids.”

This isn’t the first time the Genesis hitmaker has called out her ex on social media, as she previously blasted him for taking their son X to meet Donald Trump at the White House.

Musk took animated photos with X next to President Trump at the Oval Office earlier this month while defending extensive cuts across the federal government.

The word’s richest man answered questions from the press while his son pulled faces, picked his nose, clung to his dad’s shoulders, and interrupted him.

After a fan alerted her to the stunt, Grimes wrote on X: “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I'm glad he was polite. Sigh.”

Grimes revealed in November that she has been in a year-long custody battle with Musk, during which time she allegedly didn’t see one of her kids for five months.

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