Grimes responds to Poppy “dredging up ancient drama” with surrogacy joke

Back in 2018, Poppy said she was bullied by Grimes while making their collaborative track “Play Destroy,” and Grimes responded that Poppy had “dragged [her] into a disgusting situation,” adding, “I don’t want to work with you.” In the eight years since, we hadn’t heard word of more contact between the two, but Poppy worked a mention of Grimes into the first episode of her new Veeps series, Improbably Poppy. As you can see in the promo clip that Poppy shared on social media, while telling people’s fortunes, she tells one man, “Grimes is going to ask you to be a surrogate to her child. Say yes. But don’t go to the appointment. If you let her sing anything from her major-label releases to you, it’s too late.”

Grimes responded with a statement on Twitter, writing, “Poppy is talented and doesn’t need to lower herself to dredging up ancient drama to get people to listen to her music. I don’t understand these continued attempts to goad me into a public fight, all because I did not want to put out a song with her abusive boyfriend Titanic Sinclair (which they leaked anyway).”

She continues:

I don’t claim any kind of moral authority. I understand how hard it is when the world is asking you to speak negatively about someone close to you who has done bad things.

I wish her the best and I hope one day she grows up and realizes that I’ve tried to be a girls girl here. I will not fight back, I won’t pursue legal action, I will not get into the details. This is an entirely one sided situation.

I don’t see the point in attacking ur friend while they take personal and professional hits for you.

Again, I don’t claim any moral authority. I respect the friendship we once had and I have empathy for the rough spot she was in when she started doing this. I hope one day she is able to see who actually cares about her and who is standing up for her.

In a reply to a tweet that’s since been deleted, Grimes added, “Poppy had nothing to do with wap. It bothers me that they continue this nda nonsense, as far as I’m aware no ndas have been proposed nor signed between her and I. I think it’s reasonable defend myself when I was accused of forcing her to sign an nda, which I did not do. The only nda that was signed was between myself and titanic in an attempt by me to try and not have titanic on the song they leaked, which he obviously broke anyway. And I did not pursue legal action against him regardless, because I don’t see the point. nor did I defend myself about what that was about when they leaked that. they continue to take these peace offerings as a sign that they can get press off this absurd mess. It should end now. Fr.”

@imchic336 shared an image of a confidentially agreement between Grimes and Sinclair in reply, to which Grimes responded, “I never signed this. He won’t post the whole thing because he couldn’t get my signature on it, because it contains false information. If this covers all their accusations, then I am done here. Let’s plz move on.”