Sia has been promoted to the title of grandmother! In a new interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music that aired on Tuesday (June 30), the singer revealed that one of her children recently welcomed their own children.
“My youngest son just had two babies. I am a real f – grandmother!” Sia exclaimed. “I know, right? They call me ‘Nana’.”
Although she’s a grandmother now, the Grammy-nominated singer doesn’t want to be called that. Instead, she’s grabbing a page from friend Kris Jenner’s playbook. “I’m trying to get them to call me ‘Lovey,'” she said, referring to the name the reality star makes her grandchildren call her.
The singer, who confirmed in May that she had adopted two 18-year-olds last year, also spoke about her “fantastic” children and their history in foster care.
“Now I am a little weary after investigating the foster system as much as I did in the last year, because it is completely corrupt; it is failing us,” she told Lowe, explaining that both children, who are black, have been going through trauma programs. “They have been in 18 different places in their 18 years.”
Sia explained that at first, things were a “massive roller coaster” at home, with her children telling her one thing, while she discovered another, and trying to keep them out of trouble with the law. “I would say, ‘I am doing this because I am your mother. I love you,'” she shared of her emotional conversations. “‘I don’t want to see you in jail … … with your story and the color of your skin, I don’t want to see you like that 5 percent who ends up in prison for life. I don’t want that for you.”
The “Together” singer was thrilled during the interview as she continued to talk about her two children and racial injustice in the United States. “I am ashamed that it took me to adopt two black children to really understand what they go through on a daily basis,” she admitted, sharing that she is “very scared” by her children. “When this reality is happening, and it’s what we should be addressing more than anything else … We can actually act, and we can actually try to do justice for Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain, only there really is, we can have an effect We don’t have to feel sad and guilty. “
Although your child’s babies have brought joy during these difficult times, their children and the progress they have made have also added happiness to their lives. “One came out recently, and he’s blooming and he’s the light of my life … I love him so much,” she told Lowe. “I’m just trying to do what’s best for them.”
