Grimes Cancels Pride Event Performance to ‘Deal With Family Issues’

Grimes will nary longer beryllium performing astatine an upcoming Pride arena owed to “family issues."

“Hello friends, I americium truthful so sorry and regretful to opportunity I person to cancel my pridefulness show successful bid to woody pinch family issues,” nan 37-year-old ​​Canadian vocalist and songwriter (whose existent sanction is Claire Boucher) wrote connected X Sunday, May 25.

“I want to opportunity that I americium alert nan business has been a awesome inconvenience to nan fans for immoderate time, and I americium genuinely wished to make judge this is nary longer nan lawsuit very soon,” she continued.

The “Welcome to nan Opera” vocalist told her followers, “I deliberation nan show is still going to beryllium astonishing and nan lineup is great. I dream this is early capable and gives group capable clip if they wish to alteration their plans.  And I *will* make this up to you guys very soon.” 

“So overmuch emotion always, G,” she concluded, adding a bosom emoji.

Though Grimes did not sanction nan circumstantial arena she had to cancel, nan vocalist is named arsenic a performer for Washington, D.C.’s World Pride Music Festival.

The two-day arena is group for June 6 and June 7, pinch Jennifer Lopez and Troye Sivan arsenic nan headliners connected nan respective dates. Additional performers see Paris Hilton, Kim Petras, Rita Ora, Raye, Tinashe, RuPaul and Zedd.

Grimes did not spell into item astir her “family issues,” but nan musician shares 3 children pinch Elon Musk.

She and nan Tesla CEO, 53, welcomed their first child, boy X Æ A-Xii, successful May 2020. The erstwhile mates welcomed girl Exa Dark Sideræl via surrogate successful December 2021, and boy Techno Mechanicus successful June 2022.

Lately, she and Musk person made headlines for their differences successful parenting styles.

In early March, she tweeted that she has "begged" her erstwhile partner to extremity having their children successful nan nationalist oculus aliases posting them online, moreover turning to "legal recourse."

Her words were prompted by a clone station connected X that purported to show her talking astir nan "sexuality" of "Fortune 500 CEOs." She besides replied to a instrumentality who asked, "How to protect your children from this? Can't you swipe this garbage from nan internet?"

"I unluckily do not power nan net and cannot swipe this from nan internet," Grimes told nan fan. "I person tried begging nan nationalist and my kid's dada to support them offline, and I've tried ineligible recourse. I travel you here, I've seen young [people] destroyed by nan net too."

Musk, who is presently a elder advisor to President Donald Trump, was besides called retired by Grimes aft she learned of X Æ A-Xii being successful nan Oval Office from an X user. 

"He should not beryllium successful nationalist for illustration this," nan vocalist wrote connected X astatine nan time. "I did not spot this, convey u for alerting me. But I'm gladsome he was polite. Sigh." 

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In February, Grimes sent retired a bid of since-deleted tweets calling Musk retired for allegedly ignoring their child's "medical crisis."

"I americium sorry to do this publically but it is nary longer acceptable to disregard this situation. This requires contiguous attention,” she wrote successful 1 of nan posts.

Reps for Grimes and World Pride did not instantly respond to PEOPLE’s petition for comment.