Plenty of people have a difficult relationship with their father well into adulthood, and Elon Musk's relationship with his father Errol doesn't seem like it will get better any time soon. The Tesla CEO has said his father is an evil man who plots all kinds of horrible things, and he's not just talking about the constant bullying and abuse he received from him. In 2017, Errol Musk had a son with a woman 40 years his junior, which is controversial enough, but the woman was also his stepdaughter. Let's take a look at the truth about Elon Musk and his father.
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00:00Families can be tough.
00:02Some of the most bitter and difficult relationships are between the closest people in the world
00:06— brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers.
00:08And it doesn't matter how rich or famous or smart you are, family relationships can still
00:13be a mess.
00:14Just ask Elon Musk.
00:16Though there's no way of knowing exactly what went on inside the Musk household, to hear
00:20Elon Musk tell it, his father, Errol Musk, was and is an outright villain.
00:26In 2017, Elon told Rolling Stone,
00:28"...he was such a terrible human being, my dad will have a carefully thought-out plan
00:33of evil.
00:34He will plan evil."
00:35How bad was it?
00:36Elon told Rolling Stone,
00:37"...you have no idea about how bad.
00:40Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done.
00:44Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done."
00:48So what evil things is Elon referring to?
00:50Well, we do know that Errol Musk was acquitted of murder for killing three people who invaded
00:55his home, as it was ruled self-defense.
00:58And we also know that Elon has publicly accused his father of being abusive.
01:01"...very violent.
01:02It was not a happy childhood.
01:05My father has serious issues."
01:08But according to the Daily Mail, insiders believe the real point of friction has to
01:12do with perhaps Errol's most infamous act.
01:15In 2018, it was reported that Errol had fathered a child with his own stepdaughter, Jaina Bezadenhut.
01:21He was 72 at the time, she was 30.
01:24For his part, Errol told the Daily Mail that technically she wasn't his stepdaughter anymore.
01:29Though he had helped raise her from the age of four when he married her mother, Haida,
01:33he and Haida eventually got divorced, so that apparently gave him the all-clear.
01:38He said,
01:39"...I have no stepdaughters or step-sons.
01:41I have four ex-wives."
01:42He also told the Daily Mail that he considered the baby to be divine providence.
01:47"...we were lonely, lost people.
01:49One thing led to another.
01:50You can call it God's plan or nature's plan."
01:53According to the Daily Mail, Elon felt very differently about his dad having a baby with
01:57his stepsister, as he reportedly cut off all communication.
02:01And Jaina's mother, Errol's ex-wife Haida, certainly shares Elon's disgust.
02:06Calling Errol, quote, "...a bad man," Haida told Rapport,
02:09"...he has caused an incredible amount of pain for me and his children, and now brought
02:13shame on the family again.
02:15We are furious that he could make his own stepchild pregnant."
02:18This all was apparently the last straw for Elon, who had long had issues with his father.
02:23Elon told Rolling Stone that his childhood was, quote, "...miserable thanks to his father's
02:27verbal and emotional abuse."
02:29According to Elon, Errol Musk had no faith in his son and told him so on the regular.
02:34When Elon moved to Canada with a head full of dreams, Errol believed his son would be
02:38back with his tail between his legs within a few months.
02:41Elon was never going to make it, his father told him.
02:44Elon said,
02:45"...he called me an idiot all the time."
02:47That idiot went on to head the extremely successful companies Tesla and SpaceX, and also invented
02:53the technologies that allow us to make online payments, phone calls, and restaurant searches.
02:58So you might say that Elon has had the last laugh, only nobody is laughing, least of all
03:03Errol, who continues to get his digs in through the media.
03:06Errol Musk told the Daily Mail that his son needed to, quote, "...grow up and stop referring
03:11to him as evil.
03:12He needs to get over himself.
03:14I'm not going to hit back.
03:15I'm going to wait until he comes to his senses.
03:18He's having a tantrum, like a spoiled child.
03:20He can't have what he wants, and now I am apparently an evil monster."
03:24Apparently!