Grimes details difficulties of dating Elon Musk in WSJ interview

Grimes, left, and Elon Musk attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition on Monday, May 7, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) less Grimes, left, and Elon Musk attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition on Monday, May ... more Photo: Charles Sykes, Associated Press Photo: Charles Sykes, Associated Press Image 1 of / 18 Caption Close Grimes details difficulties of dating Elon Musk in WSJ interview 1 / 18 Back to Gallery

A few days after the Securities and Exchange said Elon Musk's defense of his tweets "borders on the ridiculous," the Wall Street Journal published a profile of his pop star girlfriend, Grimes, and luckily for Musk, she had some nicer things to say about him.

"I mean, he's a super interesting goddamn person," she told the Journal, after nearly collapsing to the ground "in a long, pained groan" at first mention of his name.

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"Don't tell him I groaned just now," she told the Journal. "I groaned out of, I don't know, feminism."

Musk and Grimes, née Clare Boucher, who has recently rebranded herself as "c," like the symbol for the speed of light, reportedly started dating about a year ago after an interaction surrounding an obscure joke on Twitter. The surprising pairing caused a stir online when they appeared together on the red carpet at the Met Ball, she in an outfit he helped her design.

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Amid news reports alleging union-busting practices at Tesla, Grimes drew criticism from some fans on the left when she responded to a tweet last May imploring her, "please ask Elon to let his workers unionize."

"He has never prevented them from unionizing," she replied, followed by two heart emojis.

"Trust me," she added, "I've investigated this heavily and even visited factories etc."

She went on to say that she "can respect a capitalist" when they "throw the phuck down" on issues like mass transit, space travel and universal basic income.

Grimes told the Journal this week that she was not ready for the amount of attention these kinds of missives would garner.

"I was simply unprepared," she said of the level of scrutiny that came with dating Musk. "I just thought I could keep going along in my funny little way, and then you casually respond to someone in a tweet and it's on Fox News, and you're like, ugh, you know? That was a very disturbing moment."

She concluded her thoughts on Musk with a word salad peppered with pauses and uncharitably transcribed by the reporter.

"And look, I love him, he's great. There's got to be some reason, I just think," she paused, "I wish," she paused again. "Yeah. It doesn't matter" — pause — "Cool."

Musk weighed in with a single sentence sent via email: "I love c's wild fae artistic creativity and hyper intense work ethic."

Hyper intense workers of the world... unite?