In the latest portion of bizarre from the backstage beingness of Elon Musk, the tech titan believes that ex-girlfriend Grimes is truthful cleanable that she indispensable beryllium a simulation helium created successful his mind, according to a caller BBC documentary.
The aforesaid documentary, called The Elon Musk Show, past goes connected to accidental that Grimes really agrees with the theory.
The Canadian vocalist was already 31 erstwhile she met Musk but those 3 decades successful beingness look not to person swayed her excessively overmuch erstwhile considering the theory.
Vanity Fair writer Devin Gordon says that Grimes, existent sanction Claire Boucher, shared with him Musk's mind-bending mentation successful a caller interview.
'She told maine repeatedly that Musk has this mentation of her that she's not real, that she's a simulation who was created by him and exists successful his cerebral cortex arsenic benignant of the cleanable companion to him,' helium says.
'Which sounds a small brainsick and possibly adjacent a small creepy, except, she agrees with it. She said she does consciousness similar this simulation which was perfectly created for him.'
Musk has flirted earlier with the philosophical conception that our world - and each of america successful it - is conscionable a simulation successful a machine determination successful different world that we tin ne'er entree oregon comprehend - known arsenic the 'simulation theory'.
'If you presume immoderate complaint of betterment astatine all, games volition yet beryllium indistinguishable from reality,' Musk said connected the Joe Rogan Experience successful 2018, earlier concluding: 'We're astir apt successful a simulation.'
Grimes and Elon Musk marque their archetypal nationalist quality unneurotic Met Gala successful 2018
They person 2 children together: Their archetypal child, a lad named X Æ A-Xii was calved successful May 2020, and helium was followed by a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl via surrogate successful 2021
Canadian imagination popular prima Grimes - existent sanction Claire Boucher - was featured arsenic a taxable successful a three-part BBC documentary called The Elon Musk Show. This representation is taken from 1 of her euphony videos
The Tesla mogul and the imagination popular prima had met primitively implicit Twitter, erstwhile the duo enjoyed a tech-based joke, and they made their archetypal nationalist quality unneurotic astatine the Met Gala successful 2018.
'They've been seeing each different but person been keeping their narration nether the radar,' a root said astatine the time.
Musk had conscionable emerged from a tryst with Amber Heard and and successful Boucher helium recovered a kindred tone whose euphony was rather tech-based and they shared an involvement successful technology, phantasy and acheronian theories.
Their archetypal child, a lad named X Æ A-Xii was calved successful May 2020, and helium was followed by a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl via surrogate successful 2021.
The mates broke up successful 2021 aft 3 years and 2 children together, with the billionaire citing his enactment with Tesla and SpaceX arsenic keeping him successful Texas and excessively engaged to beryllium with Boucher who was chiefly successful LA.
News that they personage duo had divided began to look successful 2021, and successful September that twelvemonth Musk made the announcement.
'We are semi-separated but inactive emotion each other, spot each different often and are connected large terms,' Musk said.
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO explained, 'It's mostly that my enactment astatine SpaceX and Tesla requires maine to beryllium chiefly successful Texas oregon travelling overseas and her enactment is chiefly successful LA. She's staying with maine present and Baby X is successful the adjacent room.'
The Elon Musk Show is simply a 3 portion documentary which began this week and features glossy interviews with former colleagues and household members, including mum Maye.
Musk's backstage beingness has agelong been highly unorthodox. He has 10 children successful full betwixt 3 mothers, with the oldest being 18-year-old twins.
The mates broke up successful 2021 aft 3 years and 2 children together, with the billionaire citing his enactment with Tesla and SpaceX arsenic keeping him successful Texas and excessively engaged to beryllium with Boucher who was chiefly successful LA
He besides has a hard narration with his raconteur father, who is successful a narration with Musk's ain step-sister whom his begetter raised himself.
Errol Musk revealed that he had a 2nd unplanned kid with 35-year-old Jana Bezuidenhout 3 years agone successful 2019, making the children some Musk's measurement nieces and step-sisters.
Elon Musk reportedly went 'berserk' erstwhile helium recovered retired and his narration with his begetter has been adjacent much strained ever since.
Although Errol denies having a atrocious narration with his billionaire son, Elon has antecedently described his technologist begetter arsenic 'evil' and a 'terrible quality being.'
However, Musk is nary alien to arguable and unorthodox parenthood himself, with tribunal documents revealing that the tech billionaire softly had twins with 1 of his apical executives successful November, weeks earlier helium welcomed a kid with Grimes.
The Tesla CEO reportedly had twins with Shivon Zilis, 36, the manager of operations astatine Musk's brain-machine interface institution Neuralink.
Musk's idiosyncratic beingness has ever been analyzable since the billionaire near down a troubled puerility successful South Africa.
He experienced difficulties arsenic a kid acknowledgment to his rocky narration with his begetter and being severely bullied astatine school.
It got truthful atrocious that helium was erstwhile hospitalised aft his bullies pushed him down a acceptable of stairs.
But since moving to the US, Musk has had a analyzable emotion beingness that includes 3 marriages and 3 divorces, including 2 of each with the aforesaid woman, and 7 children from 2 semipermanent romances.
He and his archetypal wife, Justine Wilson, present 49, met portion they were some attending Queen's University, and they tied the knot successful 2000 and went connected to person six kids. THey divorced successful 2008.
Amber Heard and Elon Musk dated successful 2016-2017 (pictured successful 2017) but could not marque it enactment owed to scheduling conflicts
Shivon Zilis, 36, pictured, 1 of the apical executives astatine Elon Musk's institution Neuralink, welcomed twins with the Tesla CEO November past year, tribunal documents revealed
Errol Musk, the begetter of Elon Musk, reportedly has a atrocious narration with his billionaire son
In April, 1 of his sons with Justine, Xavier Musk, 18, filed tribunal documents seeking to legally alteration their sex from antheral to pistillate and suffer their past name, stating: 'I nary longer unrecorded with oregon privation to beryllium related to my biologic begetter successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form.'
Following his divided from Wilson, Musk began dating British prima Talulah Riley.
Riley, present 36 - who was a virgin erstwhile she began dating Musk successful 2008 - archetypal tied the knot with the Tesla designer successful 2010.
They divorced successful 2012, got re-married, and divorced again successful 2016. The mates did not person immoderate children.
Musk dated histrion Amber Heard, 35, for respective months successful precocious 2016 and aboriginal 2017, aft helium reportedly pursued her for galore years.
Heard's ex-husband, Johnny Depp, aboriginal accused Heard of cheating connected him with Musk portion they were inactive married, but some Musk and Heard denied the affair.
And past Musk met Grimes successful 2018.
From a babe with Grimes called X AE A-Xii to a kid who disowned him: Who are Elon Musk's 10 children?
Nevada
Elon Musk and his archetypal woman Canadian Justine Wilson had their archetypal son, Nevada, successful 2002.
But Nevada died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) astatine 10 weeks.
Elon Musk and his archetypal woman Canadian Justine Wilson had their archetypal son, Nevada, successful 2002
Twins Griffin and Vivian Jenna Wilson (formerly Xavier), aged 18
After losing Nevada, Musk and Wilson - who were joined betwixt 2000 and 2008 - turned to IVF to turn their family.
Wilson gave commencement to duplicate sons Griffin and Xavier Musk successful April 2004.
In April, Xavier filed court documents seeking to legally alteration from antheral to pistillate and suffer their past name, stating: 'I nary longer unrecorded with oregon privation to beryllium related to my biologic begetter successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form.'
Xavier Musk, 18, filed the paperwork successful Santa Monica, California, connected April 18, seeking to beryllium known arsenic Vivian Jenna Wilson, taking the maiden sanction of her parent Justine Wilson, who was joined to Musk from 2000 to 2008 and shares 18-year-old twins Xavier and Griffin and 16-year-old triplets Damian, Kai and Saxon.
The transgender teen explained that they privation to instrumentality their mother's past sanction to region them from their dada but they person not commented connected whether they person fiscal enactment from their dada - whose $213 cardinal dollar luck makes him the world's richest man.
Elon Musk and his 2nd wife, British histrion Talulah Riley, are pictured successful 2015 with Xavier and Griffin. The twins are present 18, and Xavier is known arsenic Vivian
Triplets Damian, Kai and Saxon, aged 16
Musk and Wilson besides utilized IVF to person triplet sons Damian, Kai and Saxon successful January 2006.
The mates divorced successful 2008 and they stock custody of their 5 sons.
Musk and Wilson besides utilized IVF to person triplet sons Damian, Kai and Saxon successful January 2006. Musk is pictured with his triplets
X AE A-Xii Musk, aged 2
Musk started dating vocalist Grimes successful May 2018 and she gave commencement to their son X AE A-Xii, successful May 2020.
Their lad was primitively named X Æ A-12, but 'Æ' and '12' violated California law, which prohibits the usage of immoderate numbers of symbols successful a name. The mates past changed the spelling of their son's name.
Instead of X Æ A-12, they revealed conscionable a fewer weeks aft the babe was calved that his commencement certificate would beryllium registered nether the sanction X AE A-Xii - utilizing the Roman numeral mentation of the fig '12' and changing the quality æ to AE.
The mates past broke up successful September 2021.
Musk started dating vocalist Grimes successful May 2018 and she gave commencement to their lad X AE A-Xii, successful May 2020 (Musk pictured with X)
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who goes by Y, aged 1
Grimes and Musk aboriginal welcomed their archetypal daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, via surrogate successful December 2021.
Grimes referred to Musk arsenic her 'boyfriend' successful a Vanity Fair interview, but aft the interrogation was published, she took to Twitter to uncover that they had since breached up.
'Me and E person breached up *again* since the penning of this article,' she wrote connected March 10. 'But he's my champion person and the emotion of my life.'
New acceptable of twins, names unknown
It has emerged that Musk quietly had twins with 1 of his apical executives weeks earlier helium welcomed a kid with Grimes via surrogate.
In November, the Tesla CEO, 51, reportedly had twins with Shivon Zilis, 36, the manager of operations astatine Musk's brain-machine interface institution Neuralink, Insider reported. He present has 9 known children.
Musk and Zilis filed a petition successful April to alteration the twins' names successful bid to 'have their father's past sanction and incorporate their mother's past sanction arsenic portion of their mediate name,' according to the tribunal documents.
The twins were calved successful November, conscionable weeks earlier Musk and Claire Boucher, the instrumentalist who performs arsenic Grimes, had their 2nd kid via surrogate successful December.