Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has been on the centre of serious controversy as a result of his romantic relationship along with his former stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout.
Errol Musk Background and Relationship
Errol Musk married Heide Bezuidenhout within the early Nineties, turning into stepfather to her daughter, Jana, who was simply 4 years outdated on the time.
This positioned Errol as a stepfather and a parental determine in Jana’s life throughout her youth. Errol and Heide had two kids collectively, making them Jana’s half-siblings. This established a familial bond by way of their shared mom.
After divorcing Heide in 2004, Errol reconnected with Jana in 2014 throughout a tough interval in her life.
“She instructed me ‘If I don’t get assist, I’m going to commit suicide’, so then I assumed I higher go and see her,” Errol stated. “So, I drove to the place she was and met her, and her legs had been like broom handles,” Errol added that he determined to supply to assist Jana, who was already a mom to a 7-year-old daughter.
Their relationship turned romantic round 2016, when Jana was 28 and Errol was 69. Errol has publicly acknowledged that he by no means thought-about Jana his stepdaughter, as she was raised individually from the Musk household for a lot of her life.
“We had been lonely, misplaced folks. One factor led to a different, you can name it God’s plan or nature’s plan,” Errol stated.
In 2017, the couple had their first youngster, and Errol assumed it was her ex-boyfriend’s solely to search out it later, that it was his.
They had a son named Elliot, adopted by a daughter in 2019. However, it was by no means confirmed that they had been married at any level.
Elon Musk & Family Response
Elon Musk has beforehand branded his father as ‘evil’ and ‘a horrible human being’, describing how tough his childhood was rising up with Errol, recounting situations of emotional abuse.
While chatting with Rolling Stone, Elon as soon as stated, ‘In my expertise, there may be nothing you are able to do. Nothing, nothing. I want. I’ve tried all the things. I attempted threats, rewards, mental arguments, emotional arguments, all the things to attempt to change my father for the higher, and he… no manner, it simply obtained worse.”
According to studies, Elon and his first spouse, Justine, refused to let Errol see their kids after studying in regards to the relationship with the general public, largely viewing Elon as a sufferer of a deeply dysfunctional household dynamic.
Despite Errol’s claims that the broader household has no drawback with the scenario and that they even spent holidays collectively, this seems to be extra his perspective than a consensus.
Despite the backlash, Errol has remained unapologetic. He has defended the connection as utterly regular and dismissed criticism with statements like, “Show me the foundations. There are not any guidelines.”
He has additionally expressed a perception that replica is humanity’s major objective, additional alienating a few of his members of the family.
