DADDY ISSUES

Errol Musk Says Son Elon ‘Hasn’t Been a Good Father’ in Wild Interview

The South African former emerald dealer gave the inside scoop on his son’s upbringing, on the ‘Wide Awake’ podcast.

Errol Musk has branded his billionaire son a bad father and said Elon was never there for his mega brood of children.

Errol, who himself is a famously terrible dad, admitted his own indiscretions but said—perhaps tongue-in-cheek—that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO will have him “shot” for going public with his opinions. Elon has previously claimed his father had done “almost every evil thing you can possibly think of.”

Errol, who had Elon with Maye Musk in 1971, flapped his gums on all manner of subjects during a wide-ranging chat on the ‘Wide Awake’ podcast. And when posed the question of whether the younger Musk is a good father, the South African former engineer and emerald dealer went for the jugular.

“No, he hasn’t been a good father. The first child was too much with nannies and died in the care of a nanny. If Elon hears this, he’s going to shoot me or something,” Errol said.

Errol was talking about Elon’s fist child, Nevada Alexander, who passed away at just 10 weeks old from Sudden Death Syndrome (SIDS).

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“Then he had five children, each one had their own nanny. It was a weird situation. He didn’t spend enough time with them,” he noted.

He said the situation led to strange results for him and his brother Kimball’s kids. “The result is the boys and Kimball’s two boys grew up not able to cross a street. Even the street outside, my daughters would say ‘Dad, you won’t believe it. Elon’s kids and Kimmel’s boys, they can’t cross the road. We have to hold their hands across the road when they’re like 14-years-old, can’t cross the road.‘”

He made the strange assertion that this is why one of Kimball’s children, and one of Musk’s, became trans. “Elon’s gotta deal with it. It’s, it’s a bit worrying,” he added.

Musk, a father of 12 kids in total, has recently wheeled out young X in front of the cameras around Washington D.C., to the chagrin of his ex wife musician Grimes. He also had Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno Mechanicus with Grimes.

His estranged trans daughter Vivian Wilson is notably critical of him.

Wilson, 20, has distanced herself from Musk since she became an adult. Her mom is Musk’s ex-wife, Justine Musk, with whom the world’s richest man shares six children.

Musk had twins Strider and Azure with Neuralink director Shivon Zilis in November 2021. The pair also had another child, name unknown, last year.

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