Elon Musk’s daughter, Vivian Wilson, stormed out during an interview when asked about different fathers
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, walked away from a red carpet interview when asked about her billionaire father.
Wilson, who came out as transgender in 2020, was speaking to a reporter at the Desigual Vintage event in Ibiza, Spain, on Tuesday when the conversation turned to Tesla’s CEO.
“Your good father, isn’t he?” asked the reporter.
“My what? Excuse me?” Wilson, 22, responded.
The reporter repeated the question, saying, “Your father is very good.”
“OK,” Wilson replied before ending the interview and speeding out, according to photos on social media.
The exchange is the latest public reminder of the age rift between Wilson and the businessman.
The actor, who ditched Musk for his name, officially changed his gender in 2022 and has also criticized his father, saying he doesn’t want a relationship with him.
In court filings in 2022, he said he “no longer wants to be associated” with Musk. Since then, the two have spoken openly about their broken relationship.
Musk said in a 2023 interview with author Walter Isaacson that Wilson had become a “full-blown communist” and blamed his politics in part on the K-12 private school he attended in Santa Monica, Calif.
The SpaceX founder later said he was “tricked” into signing documents related to Wilson’s gender transition.
“I lost my son,” Musk told Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in 2024.
“They call it ‘dead naming’ for a reason.” The reason they call it ‘naming a dead name’ is because your son is dead, so my son, Xavier, is dead, killed by the virus of the awakening mind.”
Wilson responded by accusing Musk of being too absent from his childhood.
“He doesn’t know what I was like as a kid because he wasn’t there,” she told NBC News. “And during the short time he was me I was tormented endlessly because of my femininity and criminality.”
He also described Musk as “reckless” and “narcissistic” and said he had no interest in maintaining contact with him.
“I want to make it absolutely clear that I dumped him and not the other way around,” he later wrote on Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads.
Recently, Wilson opened up about growing up as the child of the world’s richest man, calling the experience “isolating” and “weird.”
“It was a very unusual, very divisive experience,” he told Cosmopolitan in an interview published in April.
“I remember when I was young and I saw homelessness and I felt sick to my stomach. People were against me because I looked like a little kid. But no, I was okay to talk about that.”
Wilson is one of Musk’s oldest children. He and his twin, Griffin, were born in California in 2004 when Musk married writer Justine Wilson.
Musk welcomed 14 children in the past year with his ex-wife Wilson, singer Grimes, Neuralink CEO Shivon Zilis and activist Ashley St. Clair.
