Elon Musk's Daughter Reveals ‘Wild' Way She Found Out That 1 Of Her Half-Siblings Exists
Earlier this week, Wilson, Musk's estranged daughter, decided to share an alarming, albeit slightly vague, post on Threads about her half-siblings.
'If I had a nickel for every time that I found out I had a new half-sibling online, I'd have a few nickels- which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened SIX SEPARATE TIMES,' Wilson wrote.
She then followed that revelation up with a joke:
''I don't know how many siblings I have' goes really hard on 2 truths and a lie though I will admit.'
Musk has 13 children with four different women.
Wilson is one of five surviving children Musk had with his first wife, Justine Wilson (their sixth, Nevada, died at 10 weeks old). The Tesla CEO also had three with his former partner Grimes, three with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis. Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair has also claimed Musk fathered her child.
After Wilson posted about only finding out she has new siblings from the internet — rather than her own father — her followers begged her to elaborate, and Wilson was happy to oblige.
'I will do a whole storytime about this because like it's WILD,' Wilson wrote on Meta before posting a link to a TikTok.
In the TikTok, Wilson explains how she found out about Musk and Grimes' third child, a boy named Techno Mechanicus, who also was born in June 2022.
'Story time: I found out about the existence of my half-brother through reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace,' she began. 'This is a real thing that actually happened to me, and if it sounds insane, it is.'
She continued, 'I'm going to paint you a scene. The year is 2022, and at the time, me and Grimes — or as I know her, C — are not talking. We're not on bad terms. We're just not talking, as people do.'
Vivian went on to explain that she was on the 'RuPaul Drag Race' subreddit when she discovered the news that she has a baby brother.
'The specific day of, I didn't really have anything to do, so I was just scrolling on Reddit, and I'm a huge fan of 'Drag Race,' so naturally, I was on the 'Drag Race' subreddit. And what do I come across but none other than a tweet from Season 2 and 'All Stars' [Season] 2 contestant, Tatianna,' she said.
'I found this tweet that was crossposted onto the subreddit, and I had no idea of this at the time, because no one thought to let me know. So at the moment, I'm just in complete shock, and I don't believe it, so I double-check it on the news, and it turns out it's actually fucking true, and I'm just the last one to find out about it. This is a real thing that happened to me, girl!'
Vivian clarified, 'This isn't to drag on C or anything. It kind of makes sense how this happened because, again, we were not really talking at the time, but I just think it's funny because... choices.'
In the comments of her TikTok, Wilson told her followers to not bully the 'Oblivion' singer, Grimes, whose legal name is Claire Elise Boucher.
'Y'all, please don't go send hate to Grimes- she's been through enough,' Wilson wrote.
For what it's worth, Grimes and Wilson do seem to have a pretty decent relationship. In June 2024, Musk said in an interview that Wilson was 'dead' to him because she transitioned. In response to her father's remarks, Wilson responded by pointing out that she's essentially always been dead to Musk because he has been an absentee dad her entire life.
Grimes seemed to like Wilson's response to Musk, and soon after posted a tweet to X, formerly Twitter, that read:
'I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian.'
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