Sia is opening up about her divorce settlement, in which she will pay $42,000 per month in child support to her ex Dan Bernad.
“I see my settlement has been picked up by the press. I’m a sober working mom trying to buy peace,” the “Cheap Thrills” singer shared in an X post on Tuesday, April 7.
Sia continued, “I have primary custody of our son and since i am the only parent earning income i still have to pay California’s incredibly high child support.”
“This has been a horrific year but it taught me how to navigate incredibly difficult situations, prioritize my family and not absorb other people’s negativity,” she continued, going on to share a quote from poet Alexander Pope: “To err is human, to forgive is divine.”
Us Weekly confirmed on Monday, April 6, that the “Chandelier” singer agreed to pay Bernad $42,000 per month for the care of their 2-year-old son, Somersault. According to court documents obtained by Us, Sia, 50, began the monthly payments on April 1 and will continue to pay the five-figure arrangement until Somersault turns 18.
As well as child support, Sia will pay for her son’s private school tuition, mutually agreed extracurricular activities, health insurance and mutually agreed uninsured health costs, per the documents.
Sia and Bernad will share joint legal custody of their son from May, according to the docs, and will split holidays. Sia will have Somersault on Mother’s Day, Easter and at Christmas. Bernad will have the little one on Father’s Day and various Jewish holidays, including Yom Kippur, Passover and Hanukkah. The exes will rotate custody for Thanksgiving, Halloween and other holidays.
Sia filed for divorce from Bernad in March 2025, just two years after they tied the knot in a ceremony hosted at fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s villa in Portofino, Italy.
The Australian singer cited irreconcilable differences in the divorce filing and requested legal and physical custody of their son.
Later in 2025, Bernad filed court documents requesting more than $250,000 a month in spousal support. Per the docs, Bernad said he’d been out of work since April 2025, when he “received a letter from Sia’s company providing me with notice that it would be terminating her funding” of their company, Modern Medicine. Bernad claimed he was living on “monthly payments from Sia” that expired in October 2025.
“I have no income, no real property, no retirement and very little funds in my bank account. I cannot maintain this litigation without a significant contribution by Sia toward my attorneys’ fees and forensic accounting fees. Sia has the greater ability to pay for both of our legal fees,” Bernad said in the docs. “I therefore ask the Court to level the playing field and order Sia to contribute no less than $300,000 toward my attorney’s fees and costs and $200,000 toward my forensic accounting fees and costs.”
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