Elon Musk’s first wife, Justine Wilson, is offering a new account of the billionaire’s strained relationship with their transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson, alleging that he treated her transition as though he had experienced the “death of a child.”
Wilson discusses the family rift in the upcoming documentary Musk, describing what she says was the emotional impact of Musk’s public comments about their daughter and the breakdown in their relationship.
According to Justine, Vivian was in pain when Musk publicly claimed he had lost her to what he called the “woke mind virus.” The remark became part of the wider public dispute surrounding Musk’s relationship with his daughter and his views on transgender issues.
Justine said Musk’s public statements communicated his position directly to Vivian, rather than helping repair their relationship.
“Elon was telling her, through telling the world, what that point of view actually was. And Elon never tried to repair things, that’s not in his nature,” Justine said in the documentary, according to the supplied report.
Her account also includes an allegation about what happened after Vivian came out as transgender.
Justine says Musk told her to pass a message to their daughter: “I’ll always love her.” However, she alleges that Vivian’s health insurance was cut off the following day.
The supplied material does not establish the circumstances surrounding the reported insurance change or provide Musk’s response to that specific allegation. The claim therefore remains part of Justine’s account rather than an independently established finding.
Vivian, who has publicly distanced herself from her father, legally changed her name and no longer uses his surname. Their estrangement has also played out in public, with Musk making statements about their relationship and Vivian speaking independently about her experiences.
More recently, Vivian appeared in a series of advertisements criticizing artificial intelligence. One of the messages associated with the campaign was: “Some things aren’t meant to be fixed.”
The line carries particular resonance amid public attention on her relationship with Musk, although the supplied information does not establish that the advertisement was specifically intended as a response to their family dispute.
Justine’s comments in Musk offer another account of the personal consequences of that estrangement, focusing on Vivian’s reported emotional pain and her allegation that her father did not attempt to reconcile with her.
The documentary’s account adds to an increasingly public family rift, one in which questions of identity, parental relationships and the consequences of public statements have become difficult to separate.
