Grimes tells Elon Musk ‘turn off your phone’ after Tesla CEO’s gender pronouns tweet
Artist later deleted her response, while Musk’s was still public at the time of writing
Grimes asked her partner Elon Musk to “stop” and to turn off his phone after he caused a backlash over his tweet that claimed: “Pronouns suck.”
Grimes, who has a child with the Tesla CEO, responded in a since-deleted tweet that said: “I love you but please turn off ur phone or give me a dall [sic].
“I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart.”
Musk’s original tweet was still public at the time of writing. He had previously tweeted: “Twitter sucks.”
Musk recently caused controversy by announcing his support for West’s presidential campaign, but appeared to backtrack after the rapper’s interview with Forbes.
In the interview, West said he was “pro-life” and claimed vaccinations were “the mark of the beast”.
“We may have more differences of opinion than I anticipated,” Musk tweeted, after the interview was published.
Grimes and Musk announced the birth of their child, X AE A-XII, in May this year.
Before she gave birth, Grimes explained that she did not want to reveal the gender of their child.
“I don’t want to say the gender of the baby… because I feel like their privacy should be protected,” Grimes said, according to People. “I don’t think they can consent to being famous or being in public.
The 31-year-old also said that she doesn’t want to “gender them” in case that is not how the child identifies.
“And I don’t want to gender them in case that’s not how they feel in their life. I don’t know, I just feel like it doesn’t need to be known,” she said.
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Grimes’s latest album, Miss Anthropocene, was released in February to positive reviews from critics.