Elon Musk’s Ex-Spouse Remembers Tesla CEO Slicing Off Daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson’s Well being Insurance After She Got here Out as Trans
Justine Wilson is opening up concerning the very public rift between ex-husband Elon Musk and their daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson.
If you have been unaware, Vivian, 22, got here out as transgender in 2020 and legally filed to change her name and gender in 2022. In 2024, Elon, 55, made headlines when he mentioned that Vivian was “dead” and “killed by the woke mind virus.”
Justine – who was married to Elon from 2000 to 2008 – not too long ago participated in Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney‘s new challenge Musk and mentioned that Vivian and Elon‘s troublesome relationship goes again to when the mannequin/activist was a younger youngster.
“She is extraordinarily strong-willed,” Justine mentioned of her daughter. “Elon and I had 5 children and the one who was most brazenly defiant was Jenna [Vivian’s middle name].”
Justine goes on to say that when Vivian was 6-years-old, Elon advised her, “In this planet there are winners and losers. Do you wish to be a winner or do you wish to be a loser?”
“The subtext there was, ‘If you don’t comply with me and do what I say, you can be a loser,’ ” Justine added.
Also within the new doc, which Elon didn’t take part and has very publicly denounced, Justine talked concerning the “ache” Vivian felt after the Tesla CEO mentioned that she was “killed by the woke thoughts virus.”
“Elon was telling her, by telling the planet, what that standpoint really was,” Justine defined. “And Elon by no means tried to restore issues, that’s not in his nature.”
“If a relationship ruptures, then it ruptures,” Justine mentioned of her ex-husband’s perspective.
She additionally mentioned that Elon handled Vivian‘s transition just like the “loss of life of a kid.”
“I used to be like, ‘We really went by the precise loss of life of an precise youngster,’” Justine mentioned, referring to her and Elon‘s son Nevada, who died of sudden toddler loss of life syndrome in 2002 at 10 weeks previous. “‘And what’s actually taking place right here is it is a youngster rising up.’”
Justine claimed that Elon advised her to inform Vivian that “I’ll at all times love her” – then reduce off her medical insurance the subsequent day, after Vivian got here out as trans.
On a broader side, Justine mirrored on what Elon might need been grappling with with their daughter.
“If you do your job proper as a mother or father, you get displaced by their life, which is not your life,” Justine mentioned. “There’s lots of emotion concerned with that.”
Musk shall be out in theaters nationwide on October 16.
Learn all about Elon‘s 14 children and their 4 mothers.
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