Relationships and family[edit]

Following the disbandment of Crisp in 1997, Sia moved to London to follow her relationship with
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boyfriend Dan Pontifex. Several weeks later, while on a stopover in Thailand, she received the
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news that Pontifex had died after being in a car accident in London. She returned to
Australia, but received a call from one of Pontifex's former housemates, who invited her to stay in
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London. Her 2001 album Healing Is Difficult lyrically deals with Pontifex's death: "I was pretty
fucked up after Dan died. I couldn't really feel anything." Sia recalled the effect of his death in a 2007
interview for The Sunday Times: "We were all devastated, so we got shit-faced on drugs and Special
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Brew. Unfortunately, that bender lasted six years for me."
Sia married documentary filmmaker Erik Anders Lang at her home in Palm Springs, California, in
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August 2014. The couple divorced in 2016. During a 2014 appearance on The Howard Stern
Show, Sia was asked if she was religious, to which she responded, "I believe in a Higher Power and
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it's called 'Whatever Dude' and he's a queer, surfing Santa that's a bit like my grandpa, so yes."
In the same interview, she stated that she is a feminist and that Whatever Dude divinely inspired the
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lyrics she wrote for Rihanna's song "Diamonds". One of Sia's tattoos on her hand reads
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"Whatever Dude". Sia is a cousin of Australian Christian rock musician Peter Furler.
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In 2019, Sia adopted two boys who were aging out of the foster care system. In 2020, Sia
announced that she had become a grandmother when one of her two 19-year-old sons had fathered
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twins.