Having spent last weekend bragging that Elon Musk is actually really good at video games, former pop great and current social media time-waster Grimes is now distancing herself from her billionaire ex after Musk seemingly gave a Nazi salute at Donald Trump's inauguration.
Responding to a Twitter/X user threatening to renounce their Grimes fandom, the artist posted a lengthy reply in the early hours of Tuesday morning (January 21), saying that she was "only just learning about this controversy now," hours after it happened.
"It's absurd that someone can be this cancelled for something their ex did before they even heard it happened," Grimes wrote. "I am not him. I will not make a statement every time he does something." (Unless it's being good at video games, apparently.)
Despite distancing herself from Musk's apparent salute, Grimes didn't fully renounce him, instead arguing, "I don't know what happened and I will not make a rash statement — I am not a citizen of this country." She claimed that she has "respect" for critics who are concerned about Musk's actions, but that she won't "go talk shit and be on a bunch of magazine covers and be a feminist hero and get clout."
In a separate post, she said that she was "happy to denounce Nazi-ism — and the far alt right. Would that help clear things up?"
See her statements below.