Elon Musk’s father has admitted he is not proud of his billionaire son, would not drive a Tesla and defined why he married and had a child with his stepdaughter in a candid radio interview.
Errol Musk, 76, known as into the Kyle and Jackie O Show on Australian radio Monday morning for a weird 20-minute interview.
The father of the Tesla CEO told the hosts Elon had ‘surpassed the mark’ of what he deemed success however mentioned the Musk household had ‘been doing loads of issues for a very long time’.
‘Your offspring is a genius. He’s value a lot cash and has created so many issues, you may’t take that away from him. Are you proud?’ one of the hosts requested.
He first deferred when requested the place Elon obtained his genius from, suggesting it might have been the milk man who used to go to them reasonably than Errol or mom Maye.
Musk then declared he wasn’t proud: ‘No. You know, we’re a household which have been doing loads of issues for a very long time, it isn’t as if we out of the blue began doing one thing’.
Errol mentioned his kids have been doing ‘fascinating issues’ for a very long time and he had not as soon as acquired a handout from his billionaire son and that it was Elon’s youthful brother Kimbal who was his ‘pleasure and pleasure’.
He additionally made clear to make clear that Kimbal himself was a billionaire, although not almost as rich as Elon, the richest man on earth.
Errol Musk (proper) mentioned his billionaire son Elon (left) had ‘surpassed the mark’ however as a household the Musks had ‘been doing loads of issues for a very long time’
Musk was requested in regards to the relationship he shares with his 34-year-old stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout
Errol mentioned his billionaire son is not as completely satisfied as he may very well be when it got here to his success and mentioned he feels as if he’s operating 5 years not on time, suggesting even that he is perhaps an underachiever.
‘He is pissed off with progress and it is comprehensible,’ the 76-year-old mentioned.
When pressed on what Elon could be up to had been he truly ‘on schedule’ he told Kyle and Jackie O he’d have his scholarship up way back.
‘I do know it sounds loopy, however we have a tendency to suppose like that as a household. He’s 50 now and I nonetheless suppose of him as slightly boy. But he’s 50, I imply that is an outdated man.’
In reference to current shirtless images of his son on a ship in Greece, he mentioned he had been encouraging his son to eat higher and take a complement.
‘Elon may be very strongly constructed however he’s been consuming badly,’ he told the hosts.
Errol even mentioned he had really helpful garcinia cambogia – a complement that may supposedly support weight reduction with out extra train or weight-reduction plan – to his son.
Errol mentioned that Elon is ‘constructed strongly’ however ‘consuming badly’ and mentioned he had really helpful garcinia cambogia – a complement that may supposedly support weight reduction with out extra train or weight-reduction plan – to his son
Errol mentioned his kids have been doing ‘fascinating issues’ for a very long time and he had not as soon as acquired a handout from his billionaire son and that it was Elon’s youthful brother Kimbal (pictured) who was his ‘pleasure and pleasure’
Errol then revealed he by no means as soon as acquired a handout from his billionaire son (pictured in May) and that it was his youthful brother Kimbal who was his ‘pleasure and pleasure’
Musk was requested if he drove a Tesla to which he replied he as an alternative drove a Bentley, Rolls Royce and Mercedes-Benz.
He additionally mentioned that his son would not simply give him cash: ‘We are a really frugal, stingy household. If I would like to spend something I’ve to reply 100 questions of why,’ he defined.
‘Elon lives a really frugal life. He’s up at work at six o’clock.’
He did joke that Elon would ship him up in his spaceship as a ‘guinea pig’.
Errol mentioned he frightened Elon, who’s at present single, won’t ever discover a girl who will hand over her profession to be half of his life, like Kimbal’s spouse Cristiana Wyly had carried out regardless of being educated and having a Master’s Degree.
He did say of his son: ‘He loves folks, he loves humanity’ and fondly remembered when he was 14 years outdated and it was his birthday, shopping for him a cassette by Louie Armstrong known as ‘What a Wonderful World’.
‘She’s with him on a regular basis and that is very, very good,’ he mentioned of the couple. ‘Elon would not [have that] and I fear about him’.
Musk was then requested about his relationship with his 34-year-old stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout – who he shares two younger kids with.
That got here after joking that he’s nonetheless a girls’ man: ‘I’ve nonetheless gotta’ meet the person who would not need to be a girls’ man, so once I meet that man I’ll let you already know’.
He mentioned he was married to Jana’s mom for 2 years within the Nineteen Nineties and that he hadn’t seen or spoken to Bezuidenhout after the divorce till 2014.
Errol is pictured right here holding his son Elon as a child
Elon Musks’s father revealed his son lives a really frugal life and is up at 6am each morning to go to work
He mentioned it was when she reached out to him throughout a troublesome time that their friendship become a romance.
Errol had to interrupt when one of the hosts instructed Jana was his organic daughter: ‘No, no it is utterly regular,’ he mentioned, regardless of the 42-year age hole.
Musk was then bizarrely requested what his son’s Elon’s penis seemed like and if it was circumcised.
‘I’ll get him to ship a photograph,’ Errol joked.
Last month, the 76-year-old revealed he had had a daughter with Bezuidenhout in 2019, a yr after they’d their first youngster, Elliot Rush, now aged 5.
Errol Musk revealed his Tesla CEO son Elon had by no means given him any cash and admitted they had been a ‘frugal, stingy household’
Musk began courting singer Grimes in May 2018 and she gave beginning to their son X AE A-Xii, in May 2020 (Musk pictured with X)
He told The Sun he would love to have the youngsters dwelling with him however the final time they visited ‘the youngsters had been beginning to get on my nerves.’
Musk refused to rule out having much more kids, nonetheless, saying: ‘The solely factor we’re on Earth for is to reproduce.’
Errol told the publication that his CEO son shared the opinions of his three sisters, who had been creeped out by the connection he had with their half-sister.
‘They nonetheless don’t prefer it. They nonetheless really feel a bit creepy about it, as a result of she’s their sister. Their half-sister,’ Errol mentioned.
Meanwhile, it additionally emerged Elon had welcomed twins final November with a senior government at one of his firms, 36-year-old Shivon Zilis.
Musk refused to rule out having much more kids, nonetheless, saying: ‘The solely factor we’re on Earth for is to reproduce.’
Musk’s kids Kimbal, Tosca and Elon with first spouse Maye
The twins arrived just some weeks earlier than Musk had a second youngster through surrogate with his on-off girlfriend Canadian pop star Claire Boucher, who goes by the alias Grimes.
The father-of-ten additionally has 5 kids with his first spouse, Canadian writer Justine Musk.
A sixth youngster, their first, died of sudden toddler demise syndrome once they had been simply ten weeks outdated in 2002, prompting them to use invitro fertilisation.
Then Justine gave beginning to twins — Vivian and Griffin — in 2004, adopted by triplets — Kai, Saxon and Damian — in 2006.
Their eldest youngster, Vivian, 18, not too long ago filed a authorized request to change her first identify to replicate that she is transgender and her final identify to sign she doesn’t need ‘to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form’.
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