Grimes Is Dating Chelsea Manning After Elon Musk Breakup: Report

BY Calum SlingerlandPublished Mar 11, 2022

In a new Vanity Fair cover story, Grimes revealed that she had a second child with Elon Musk, and later confirmed on Twitter that they had broken up again since the profile was written. Now, its been reported that the Canadian pop artist born Claire Boucher is dating American whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning.

Page Six cites a source close to the "fast-paced" relationship, who tells the publication, "They're getting serious. They U-Hauled it ... They've been living together in Austin."

Austin, TX, is where journalist Devin Gordon travelled to interview Grimes for the aforementioned Vanity Fair profile, and at one point in the piece, he writes about hearing "full-blown infant screams upstairs, followed by the voice of a woman pleading SHH" during their interview, though the woman is not identified.

Page Six also notes a handful of Twitter interactions between Grimes and Manning in recent months, though these posts point more to a possible appearance on American streamer and left-wing political commentator Hassan Piker's Twitch broadcast than a relationship confirmation.
Of her relationship status with Musk, Grimes shared with Vanity Fair: "There's no real word for it ... I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we're very fluid. We live in separate houses. We're best friends. We see each other all the time … We just have our own thing going on, and I don't expect other people to understand it."

Manning, a former United States Army soldier, made headlines in the early 2010s for disclosing nearly 750,000 classified or sensitive military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017, upon having her remaining sentence commuted by Barack Obama. Earlier this month, Manning revealed that her memoir is expected to be published later in 2022.

Grimes recently shared "Shinigami Eyes," due to appear on a forthcoming EP. She also celebrated 10 years of her breakout album Visions, and teased the existence of a "35-track nightcore album."

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