Congratulations to Sia, the Titanium singer who has become a grandmother at the age of 44. The surprising revelation was made this week, and follows a 2019 announcement that the Australian recording artist known for her unique vocals and face-concealing fringe had adopted two eighteen-year olds.
On Tuesday, Sia revealed that one of her sons has welcomed two babies which, one could assume, are twins.
‘My youngest son just had two babies,” Sia told Zane Lowe for Apple Music. ‘I’m a f**king grandma! I’m just immediately horrified. No, I’m cool.’
Sia also described how she feels about being a mother to two Black sons, and what she’s learned about racism and, indeed, the flawed foster care system which fails young people.
‘I’m a little bit jaded now after investigating the foster system as much as I have in the last year,’ she explained. ‘It’s completely corrupt. It’s failing us. It’s a failing institution. They’ve been in 18 different locations in their 18 years.’
‘I’m embarrassed that it took me to adopt two Black sons to really understand what they go through on a daily basis. I’m embarrassed that they’re in bikini pictures up on the Daily Mail when this reality is happening, and it’s what we should be addressing more than anything else over any dumb movie I’m putting out or any song I’m putting out or any music I ever loved.’
The news is followed by an additional revelation from the singer: she has claimed that she once stepped in to stop Maddie Ziegler – the child star who appeared in her iconic Chandelier music video – from getting on a plan with disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
She told The Zach Sang Show that she has ‘always felt this extreme desire to protect’ Maddie, now 17. Ziegler. ‘You know I kept her off a plane that Harvey Weinstein tried to get her on. I know there’s times where my insight has really made a difference, like kept her safe. Yeah, that was really disgusting.’
Congratulations, then, to Sia. We think she might just be the world’s coolest grandma.
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