Elon Musk shared that he believes Vivian—his estranged transgender daugher with ex Justine Wilson—has been “killed” by “woke mind virus.”

Elon Musk is getting candid about his relationship with his estranged daughter.

The Tesla CEO shared that 20-year-old Vivian Jenna Wilson—whom he shares with ex-wife Justine Wilson—was “killed” in his eyes by “the woke mind virus” by seeking gender-affirming care after coming out as transgender.

“I was essentially tricked into signing documents,” Elon told Daily Wire in an interview published July 23. “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.”

The SpaceX founder claimed he only agreed to sign the papers that gave Vivian permission to undergo gender-affirming care because he was told she “might commit suicide” if he didn’t.

“I was tricked into doing this,” Elon continued. “I lost my son, essentially.”

Noting that the act of referring to a transgender person by their old name is called “deadnaming,” he added, “The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead.”

And Elon—who also shares late son Nevada Alexander Musk, Vivian’s twin brother Griffin Musk, and 16-year-old triplets Kai Musk, Saxon Musk and Damian Musk with Justine—doesn’t want to experience that loss again. As he explained, “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that, and we’re making some progress.”

Vivian cut ties with Elon in 2022 after filing a petition to change her name due to her gender identity and her severed relationship with the patriarch.

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“I no longer live with,” Vivian wrote in court documents obtained by E! News at the time, “or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”

In addition to his children with Justine, Elon also shares kids X Æ A-Xii, 4, Exa Dark Sideræl, 2, and Techno Mechanicus, whose birth was confirmed in 2023, with ex Grimes, as well as three kids—2-year-old twins Strider and Azure and a third baby welcomed in March—with partner Shivon Zilis.

And while he’s no longer in contact with Vivian, the 53-year-old previously shared that he has strong bonds with his other kids.

“I have very good relationships with all the others,” Elon told Financial Times in an interview published June 23. “Can’t win them all.”

E! News has reached out to Justine for comment but hasn’t heard back.

Keep reading for a full breakdown of Musk’s complicated family tree.

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Maye Musk (Mom)

Maye was born in Saskatchewan, Canada and emigrated with her parents to Pretoria, South Africa in 1950, when she was 7. She and Elon’s father, Errol Musk, split in 1979.

After Elon moved to Canada at age 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved there too. There, she established a dietician practice and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She also worked as a model.

In 2019, after Elon sold his company Zip2 for more than $300 million, he bought his mom an apartment in New York City, where she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling career after being signed to the IMG Models agency.

“I brought my children up like my parents brought us up when we were young: to be independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite,” Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. “I taught them the importance of working hard and doing good things.”

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Errol Musk (Dad)

Elon’s father is an engineer and like Elon, was born in South Africa.

Though Errol said in a 2015 Forbes interview that he used to often take his kids on trips overseas—”Their mother and I split up when they were quite young and the kids stayed with me. I took them all over the world.”—his relationship with Elon isn’t picture perfect.

In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his parents split, he moved in with his dad, which, he said, “was not a good idea.”

However, Errol told Rolling Stone, “I love my children and would readily do whatever for them.”

Following his divorce from Maye, Errol married Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years old at the time. Errol and Heide went on to have two daughters together before they, too, broke up.

Years later, Jana reached out to Errol following a breakup of her own. “We were lonely, lost people,” Errol explained in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times. “One thing led to another—you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”

Either way, the duo became romantic and welcomed son Elliott in 2017 and then a baby girl in 2019. As Errol put it to The Sun, “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce. If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.”

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Kimbal Musk & Tosca Musk (Siblings)

Kimbal, born in 1972, is a restauranteur and the founder of The Kitchen, a collective of five restaurants that source directly from local farmers. He also runs a non-profit, Big-Green, that has built 200 learning gardens in schools across the U.S., the outlet said.

Tosca, born in 1974, is a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming service that targets the billion-dollar romance novel industry.