Actress Megan Fox and rapper Machine Gun Kelly are one of Hollywood’s most notorious pairings, and have been engaged since 2022. Both have children from prior relationships, but last year, were thrilled to be expecting a baby together… until Fox suffered a tragic miscarriage. Now the rapper, often referred to as MGK, has opened up about the pain of the loss in numerous songs.
In November, Fox released a book of poetry, and publicly addressed the miscarriage.
“I’d never been through anything like that in my life. I have three kids, so it was very difficult for both of us, and it sent us on a very wild journey together and separately … trying to navigate What does this mean? and Why did this happen?” she said in an interview with Good Morning America. The poetry book includes one poem written about an ultrasound of a girl at 10 weeks, 1 day. “maybe if you hadn’t… maybe if i had… ” she wrote. “I want to hold your hand / hear your laugh, but now / I have to say / goodbye.”
She also indicated that she had to undergo surgery to complete the miscarriage, writing that she imagined holding her baby “as they rip you from my insides.”
“I will pay any price,” she continued. “Tell me please / what is the ransom / for her soul?”
MGK has also been sharing about the pain of losing a baby in several of his songs. One song, “Last November,” appears to directly address the miscarriage:
You didn’t wake up today
I didn’t get to see your face, mm
Was it my fault? Was it karma?
Was your fate in the hands of my conscience?
‘Cause you didn’t wake up today, yeah
[Chorus]
So sad we ended up here
So sad, but everything’s clear
Could I save your life if I pressed rewind?
I wish I could go back to November last year
One day and another ten weeks, (one day and another ten weeks)
I never even got to hear your heart beat, (I never even got hear your heart beat)
In “Twin Flame,” the sound of a heartbeat can be heard; MGK performed the song at the Billboard Music Awards in 2022, and dedicated the performance to “our unborn child.”
Go to sleep, I’ll see you in my dreams
This changes everything, now I have to set you free
Now, MGK has released a new song, “Don’t Let Me Go,” in which he again seems to reference their pregnancy loss. “How can I live with the fact / That my hand wasn’t on her stomach when we lost the baby?” he asks in the song.
On X (formerly known as Twitter), MGK has been praised for being so openly emotional and vulnerable about the loss, with one user noting that men often don’t speak about how miscarriage affects them, writing, “[S]o often women carry the loss of pregnancy alone. I’ve never heard a man openly grieve it. That level of vulnerability is beautiful.”
