Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Wilson abruptly walked away from a reporter during a red carpet interview after he called her father ‘the best.’
The 22-year-old transgender model was left visibly appalled while speaking to a journalist at a Desigual Vintage event in Ibiza, Spain on Tuesday.
Wilson started off the interview with a bright smile, until the Spanish reporter brought up the Tesla billionaire, who has previously said that his child was ‘killed by the woke mind virus.’
‘Your father the best, no?’ he asked the social media star, whose mother is Musk’s first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson.
‘My what? Sorry?’ a flabbergasted Wilson asked, after which the reporter repeated himself, stating, ‘The best, your father.’
‘Okay,’ Wilson quipped before walking off in a huff and cutting the interview short.
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Wilson, 22, abruptly walked away from an interview in Ibiza, Spain on Tuesday after a reporter called her father ‘the best’; Seen in Spain on Tuesday
Wilson started off the interview with a bright smile, until the Spanish reporter brought up the Tesla billionaire (pictured) who previously said his child was ‘killed by the woke mind virus’
After the clip of the awkward moment was shared on social media, fans had a divided reaction.
Some argued that Wilson owes her fame entirely to Musk. However, supporters rushed to her defense, pointing out that because she is estranged from the billionaire, she likely has no desire to talk about him.
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‘She doesn’t want to acknowledge the fact that the doors are opening up because of who her father is,’ one wrote.
‘Have your father be the only reason you are know. Use that to make money. Also, get mad if someone brings him up,’ another wrote.
However others sided with Wilson, with one commentator writing, ‘I’d do the same if my dad constantly deadnamed me and said I was dead because of the “woke mind virus.”‘
‘Why ask her about her personal life when they know it’s an uncomfortable topic for her?’
‘Yeah, he has specifically said “losing my son to the woke mind virus” about Vivian being trans. Vivian has also openly talked about how terrible he was as a father and how a lot of the “anecdotes” he’s shared about his kids’ childhoods are just flat-out fiction,’ another added.
In 2024, Wilson branded her father ‘uncaring’ and ‘narcissistic.’
The model – who previously called her father ‘narcissistic’ – was left visibly appalled while speaking to a reporter at a Desigual Vintage event, after he said, ‘Your father the best, no?’
‘My what? Sorry?’ a flabbergasted Wilson asked, after which the reporter repeated himself. ‘Okay,’ Wilson quipped before walking off in a huff and cutting the interview short
After the clip of the awkward moment was shared on social media, fans had a divided reaction. Some argued that Wilson was ungrateful
However, supporters rushed to her defense, pointing out that because she is estranged from the billionaire, she likely has no desire to talk about him
Wilson, called Xavier Musk at birth, launched a blistering attack against her father – accusing him of being absentee, ‘cruel’, ‘quick to anger’, and bullying her for being queer – after he said she was ‘not a girl’ and figuratively ‘dead’.
The pair’s increasingly acrimonious public row was first thrown into the spotlight two years prior, when Wilson in a court filing declared she ‘no longer wishes to be related’ to her father and legally changed both her name and gender.
Musk spoke out about his painful estrangement from his daughter for the first time in 2023, calling her a ‘communist’ and blaming her politics on the expensive private high school she attended.
‘She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil,’ Musk told author Walter Isaacson, placing blame in part on Crossroads, the private K-12 school in Santa Monica where annual tuition costs up to $50,000.
The SpaceX founder further publicized their feud by claiming he was ‘tricked’ by the ‘woke mind virus’ into allowing one of his sons to become a transgender woman in an interview with Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson.
‘I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier,’ he said, using Vivian’s former name.
‘This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion. And I was told Xavier might commit suicide,’ Musk said.
He added: ‘I was tricked into doing this. It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs.’
The SpaceX founder – who has fathered 14 children with four women – previously said he was ‘tricked’ by the ‘woke mind virus’ into allowing one of his sons to become transgender
Musk said he had known from a young age that Wilson was gay, saying she ‘would pick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell it was fabulous’ and loved musicals
Musk seen with his then fiancée-Talulah Riley at an event in June 2010, as they stand with his twins Griffin (left) and Xavier, (right) now known as Vivian
‘I lost my son, essentially. They call it “deadnaming” for a reason. The reason they call it “deadnaming” is because your son is dead, so my son, Xavier, is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.’
Wilson responded, painting a scathing picture of her father in an interview by saying he was absent and bullied her for being queer.
She told NBC News: ‘He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there.’
‘And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.’
She also took to X’s arch rival site Threads, owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, declaring: ‘I want to make absolutely clear that I have disowned him and not the other way round.’
Vivian and her twin brother Griffin are the Tesla CEO’s eldest children. His first child with Wilson, son Nevada, tragically passed away at just 10 months old.
The twins were born in 2004 in California, three years before their younger brothers, Kai, Saxon and Damian, all of whom are now 20.
The South African billionaire has fathered 14 children with four different women – Wilson, Grimes, Shivon Zilis, and Ashley St. Clair – and has spoken publicly about his view that the world is underpopulated.
