Grimes Is Not A Fan Of Drugs, Regardless Of What Wikipedia Says

If you've been surreptitiously editing the Wikipedia page of Canadian musical prodigy Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, lately, then the Oblivion hit-maker has a message for you: You're "an asshole".

It would seem that at least one overzealous fan has been re-adding a repeatedly removed quote from Grimes' Wikipedia entry that she feels misconstrues her attitude towards the use of hard drugs, and she took to Tumblr overnight to set the record straight.

"Losing people to drugs and alcohol is the worst because they destroy any good memories you have of them before forcing you to deal with the empty space they leave behind," she wrote in the post. "Also whoever keeps putting the few quotes i said early in my career about drugs back into my wikipedia page is an asshole.

"I don’t want that to be part of my narrative, and if it has to be I want people to know that i hate hard drugs. All they’ve ever done is kill my friends and cause me to be unproductive. Editing a website that people take seriously and reference all the time so that it looks like i think amphetamines are cool is incredibly irresponsible, people might read that and think its a cool thing to emulate. I hope you know you are doing the world a disservice. I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into gollum and my heart is broken."

The quote to which Grimes is referring involves an interview she did for CMJ in 2012, during which she confessed to having consumed nothing but amphetamines during the creation of her acclaimed album Visions, though she clearly feels differently about that experience now, with the benefit of hindsight.

Grimes' Wikipedia page has since been updated to remove the quote once more, as well as provide a specific reference to the above post in which she expresses her distaste for hard substances, so here's hoping her narrative takes the shape she wants it to from here.