{"id":722725,"date":"2026-06-08T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:54:09","slug":"rare-sighting-of-reclusive-australian-pop-star-sia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722725\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare sighting of reclusive Australian pop star Sia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian pop icon Sia has been spotted out and about for the first time since she was ordered to pay her ex-husband a huge monthly sum.<\/p>\n

Sia appeared to be in good spirits as she took a stroll through the Studio City Farmers Market with her daughter in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n

The powerhouse vocalist was seen looking low-key in a cream coloured mumu that she paired with a baby pink cap. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a difficult year for the chart topper, who was in the midst of a messy split with her ex-husband, Daniel Bernad.<\/p>\n

Sia, 50, wed Bernad in a lavish Italian ceremony in 2022, and the pair welcomed their son Somersault in March 2024. They split in September 2025.<\/p>\n

The pair\u2019s custody battle turned nasty in October of the same year when Bernad demanded full custody of Somersault, claiming that Sia is an \u201cunfit and unreliable parent\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the only safe and reliable parent for our son. I am a doctor, young, healthy and have no criminal history or drug or alcohol addiction issues,\u201d he alleged in legal documents obtained by TMZ<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the same documents, Bernad claimed he was left without income when Sia encouraged him to quit his job as an oncologist so they could open a ketamine therapy clinic together.<\/p>\n

Sia previously addressed their split and subsequent custody battle in a series of bombshell tweets<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a sober working mom trying to buy peace. I have primary custody of our son and since i am the only parent earning income i still have to pay California\u2019s incredibly high child support,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been a horrific year but it taught me how to navigate incredibly difficult situations, prioritise my family and not absorb other people\u2019s negativity. \u2018To err is human, to forgive is divine.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, People reported that as well as child support, Sia is also responsible for covering her son\u2019s private school fees, health insurance and various other childraising costs.<\/p>\n

In another tweet following reports that she had agreed to pay $US42,500 ($AU60,000) per month in child support payments, she tweeted: \u201cgood dads get jobs\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian pop icon Sia has been spotted out and about for the first time since she was ordered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-722725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}