Elon Musk’s fierce feud with his trans daughter Vivian Wilson has deepened after she accused him of berating her for “having a high-pitched voice” when she was a child.
In an interview with conservative commentator Jordan Peterson earlier this week, Musk He said he was tricked into giving up his son Xavier, using Wilson’s old name, to allow him to take puberty blockers.
Referring to Wilson using male pronouns and by his birth name, Musk claimed his “son” had been “killed by the waking mind virus.”
Posting on X’s main site, Threads, owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Wilson responded to his comments, stating that he had no idea “where he got this from.”
Now the 20-year-old has gone a step further by painting a scathing picture of her father in an interview yesterday, saying he was absent and bullied her for being gay.
Vivian Wilson, seen here responding to her father’s comments on Threads, has deepened their feud after accusing him of berating her for “having a high-pitched voice” when he was a toddler.
In an interview, Musk said he was tricked into giving up his son Xavier, using Wilson’s old name, to allow him to take puberty blockers.
“I think he assumed I wasn’t going to say anything and just let it go, unchallenged,” she told NBC News.
‘But I’m not going to do that because if you’re going to lie about me, blatantly, in front of an audience of millions, I’m not going to let that happen.
‘I was in fourth grade. We went on a road trip that I didn’t know was actually an ad for one of the cars (I can’t remember which one) and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high pitched. It was cruel.’
Commenting on his comment that he had been “tricked” into approving gender-affirming medical care for Vivian, he added: “He was not tricked in any way.”
She went on to describe the puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy she received as “life-saving.”
In a post on X, Musk also said that Wilson was “born gay and slightly autistic” and that, at age 4, he fit certain gay stereotypes, such as loving musicals.
Wilson responded by saying, ‘He doesn’t know what I was like as a kid because he just wasn’t there.’
‘And for the short time he was with me, I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and my weirdness.
“I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype,” she continued. “I think that says a lot about how she views queer people and children in general.”
Musk said he knew from a young age that she was gay, and that she would “pick out clothes for me to wear, like a jacket, and tell me I was fabulous” and that she loved musicals.
Musk kisses his then-fiancée Talulah Riley as they stand with Musk’s twin sons, Griffin, left, and Xavier, now known as Vivian. Riley was not their mother.
Wilson added that her father made up these claims because he was not around her when she was a child in her post on Threads.
Musk is shown here with his second wife Talulah Riley in 2015 with Xavier, now Vivian, and Griffin.
Elon Musk’s family continues to grow, 22 years after his first wife, Justine Wilson, gave birth to their first children
The father and daughter have long had a contentious relationship, with Musk calling her a “communist” and thinking “anyone who is rich is evil.”
Asked about gender dysphoria, he added: “It’s incredibly evil and I agree with you that people who promote this should go to prison.”
Musk said his right-wing awakening was driven by this process and by the deception he claimed was played on him.
“I pledged to destroy the progressive mindset virus after that and we are making some progress,” he said.
The South African billionaire is said to have fathered 12 children in the past 22 years and has spoken publicly about his view that the world is underpopulated.
He had his children with three different women: Canadian writer Justine Wilson, Vivian’s mother, musician Grimes, and his employee, Shivon Zilis. His youngest son, with Zilis, was born in 2024.
Wilson legally changed her gender to female and her name from ‘Xavier’ to Vivian Jenna Wilson in 2022, though she revealed in court documents that she ‘no longer wishes to be associated’ with Musk ‘in any capacity’.
Vivian filed the petition just three days after her 18th birthday, though the court documents were not made public until the day after Father’s Day.