Elon Musk’s father said during an interview that he is not proud of his billionaire son and assured that Elon is not happy with the progress of his own career.
During the strange interview of the Monday with Australian radio The Kyle and Jackie O Show, Errol Musk, aged 76, was asked if he was proud of Elon’s achievements.
Errol answered: “No. You know, we are a family that has been doing a lot of things for a long time, it’s not like we suddenly started doing something.”
Not only did the interview give Musk’s father the opportunity to criticize his son a bit, in addition to talking about Elon, Errol’s interview also touched on to recent news that he had two children with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, aged 15 years old.
Error, 42 years older than Bezuidenhout, he became her stepfather when she was four years old. He called her relationship with her “completely normal.”
Those comments echoed earlier ones in which he stated, “The only thing we’re on Earth for is to reproduce. . I see no reason not to.”
Errol in the interview admitted that Elon, the founder of Tesla and the head of SpaceX, has achieved quite a bit compared to his brothers.
“You have seen many things and we have done many things together,” Errol said of his family, referring to the his clan’s journeys to China, the Amazon jungle and other places. “But Elon actually really hit the mark.”
Errol went on to talk about his son, saying that young Musk feels “backward” in terms of where he wants his sons to be. various companies, and “he is not as happy as he would like to be”.
“He is frustrated with the progress and it is understandable”, said Errol. “I know he sounds crazy, but we tend to think of it as family. He is now 50 years old and I still think of him as a little boy. But he is 50 years old, I mean he is an old man.”
Compared to Elon, Errol said during the interview that his other son, Kimbal Musk, is the “pride and joy” of his life. Kimbal is a restaurateur and chef with an estimated net worth of $700 million dollars, reported Business Insider.
Errol’s interview this Monday came a few days after his son decided to file a countersuit against Twitter, escalating his legal fight against the social media giant over his attempts to walk away from a $ purchase agreement billion dollars.
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