Elon Musk’s transgender daughter recalls ‘isolating’ childhood spent in extreme wealth: ‘Power corrupts people’

The estranged daughter of the world’s richest man has recalled the “isolating” and “bizarre” experience she had growing up in extreme wealth.

Vivian Wilson, the eldest daughter of Musk and his ex-wife Justine, announced that she was transgender at the age of 16 and filed a lawsuit against Musk to drop her surname.

They have been separated from each other since 2020.

Wilson, whose billionaire father was the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and who had a rocky relationship with President Trump, now recalls in an interview that he grew up in a home where money was no object. Cosmopolitan.

Abundance, both a blessing and a curse, was a dangerous temptation that the power-hungry found themselves unable to resist.

‘I saw this first hand. This will change you, and the desire for power corrupts people from within. “It’s a cartoonish thing,” Wilson, 21, said.

Wilson is the daughter of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Musk

‘Achieving this and wanting more is a never-ending cycle of greed and gluttony where nothing is enough and you kind of go crazy. It turns you into a different person. This is honestly one of my biggest fears.’

Wilson, who rejected wealth and now advocates for others, recalled how ‘lonely’ and ‘weird’ his childhood was.

‘It was a very strange experience, very isolating. “The upper class has their own private schools, social circles, etc.,” he said.

Wilson attended a secret school on the Space X campus, an institute called ‘Ad Astra’, before eventually studying at the private Los Angeles school Crossroads.

As a child, Wilson was distressed by the plight of the less fortunate; This was a concern that was considered ‘dramatic’ by those around him.

‘I’ve forgotten most of what I learned, but even as a kid I was like, ‘That’s a bit rude,’ Wilson said. “I remember being very young, seeing homelessness, and being sick to my stomach.

‘People were attacking me for acting like a dramatic little boy. But no, I was right to be a little dramatic about it.’

Wilson is now a model making her own path outside of her father’s shadow

Musk had a strained relationship with President Donald Trump after he supported him in his efforts to run for a second term.

According to Wilson, the rich were disconnected from ‘reality itself’.

Wilson describes “a level of detachment from reality itself in favor of wealth and the illusion that you deserve it while people sleep on the streets… Oh, and Santa Claus is real, too.”

The star has been candid about her father, a controversial figure who is no stranger to facing public ire.

But he remained distant from the fact that he would always be known as Elon’s kid.

‘There’s not much I can do about it, so who cares? “This is part of my story, but it’s not the future of my story,” he said.

The Daily Mail contacted Musk’s representatives for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Musk previously claimed that he was ‘tricked’ by the ‘awakened mind virus’ that allowed Vivian to transform into a woman.

Vivian is active on social media and currently has one million Instagram followers

‘I was tricked into doing this. “It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs,” Musk said of Vivian in a 2024 interview with Jordan Peterson for The Daily Wire.

‘Actually, I lost my son. They call it ‘dead nomenclature’ for a reason. ‘The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead, so my son Xavier was killed by the waking mind virus.’

Deadnaming is a way transgender people typically refer to others by the name they used before transitioning.

‘Two years later this man [Musk] He said on a podcast that I was dead, and I didn’t want that,’ she told Cosmopolitan. ‘So I posted an answer on Threads and it went viral. It all started from there.’

Vivian briefly talked about her relationship with the tech mogul. Teen Vogue.

‘I don’t care about him. I really don’t want to. It’s frustrating when people associate me with it. ‘I don’t have room to care anymore.’

Vivian is active on social media and currently has one million Instagram followers. She often shares information about her modeling career and takes fans to events she attends.