Elon Musk's daughter is sharing her side of the story.
Vivian Jenna Wilson has responded after her father, the Tesla CEO, stated that she was "killed" to the "woke mind virus" following her decision to come out as transgender and seek medical treatment.
“I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything and I would just let this go unchallenged,” she told NBC News in an interview published July 25. “Which I’m not going to do, because if you’re going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I’m not just gonna let that slide.”
Wilson, who Musk shares with his ex-wife Justine Wilson, responded by asserting her right to make her own choices regarding her identity and health.
“I would like to emphasize one thing: I am an adult. I am 20 years old. I am not a child,” she said. “My life should be defined by my own choices.”
Wilson, who applied to change her name at 18, also described her distant relationship with Musk, which she said started before she revealed she was transgender at 16.
Wilson described Musk as "cold" and "quick to anger" during her childhood, claiming he was only around 10 percent of the time.
“He is uncaring and narcissistic," she said, recalling one "cruel" incident in fourth grade during which he allegedly berated her vocal tone. "He was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high."
Musk, the SpaceX co-founder, believes he was "tricked" into signing papers permitting Wilson to receive gender-affirming care.
"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," he told Daily Wire in an interview published July 23. "I lost my son, essentially."
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