Singer Grimes And Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Have Ended Their Relationship

Musician Grimes and her girlfriend Chelsea Manning have broken up after dating for just over five months. According to an exclusive by Page Six, the couple "had been breaking [sic]up for a while," although they were very serious and had even begun living together.

The couple started dating after Grimes split from her boyfriend and baby daddy, Elon Musk, with whom she recently had a second child. Grimes and Musk have a complicated relationship and remain friends despite their kids and problems.

Manning, who was convicted and jailed for leaking confidential documents to WikiLeaks during the infamous WikiLeaks scandal, was released after former President Barack Obama commuted her sentence. Read on to find out more.

Page Six first revealed that Grimes and Manning had started dating in an exclusive piece back in March. They first became involved after Grimes officially split from Musk for the second time. 

They reported that a source had revealed that Grimes and Manning had become serious in their relationship. The couple had reportedly "U-Hauled it. They've been living together in Austin."

Despite the seriousness of their relationship, 34-year-old Manning retained ownership of her apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The two were very private about their relationship, so it is unclear why they split and whether Manning was close with Grimes' kids.

Not long after news broke that Grimes and Manning had become serious, a Vanity Fair story dropped, revealing that Grimes had just welcomed her second child with Musk via surrogacy. At the time, she said she would "refer to him as my boyfriend, but we're very fluid. We live in separate houses. We're best friends."

However, by the time the Vanity Fair piece was printed, Grimes and Musk had split again. She quoted a post about the article on Twitter and wrote, "Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article, haha, but he's my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now."

With her split from Manning, 33-year-old Grimes is now back on the dating scene. It is unclear whether she and Musk might reconsider resuming their relationship or having more kids together.

As reported by The Blast, for months before they became official, Grimes and Manning kept interacting on Twitter, commenting on and looking at each other's posts. In one instance, Grimes tweeted an explanation for her absence from a user's Twitch stream, saying she wasn't in LA and felt bad for continuously postponing. Manning responded to the tweet, saying, "vouch."

Later in December, Grimes posted, "Celebrity culture is suffocating asf. I'm not quitting music, but def changing my main day job after BOOK 1. Music industry feels old and tired, reliant on archaic systems." Manning also responded to this tweet with "vouch," and Grimes responded with, "Since I seem to be taking ur word as final these days."

Manning also liked several tweets relating to Grimes, including the Vanity Fair piece that announced she and Musk had secretly welcomed their second child through a surrogate named Exa Dark Sideræl. 

Manning recently got released from military prison after spending seven years out of her 35-year sentence. The former intelligence analyst was convicted after it was discovered that she had leaked classified thousands of military documents to Wikileaks. 

Manning was found guilty of 20 crimes, including six US Espionage Act violations. In 2017, former President Barack Obama commuted the rest of Manning's prison sentence. The former US soldier had reportedly attempted suicide several times while incarcerated. 

She got released in 2020 and has a memoir set for release on October 6th, 2022, which is titled "README.txt." In June, during an interview with the Daily Beast, Manning was asked about her romantic life, and she said, "I prefer to keep my private life private."