Elon Musk’s First Wife Speaks Out on His ‘Suicidal’ Mindset

Ryan Miller/Getty Images/REUTERS Elon Musk’s first wife is speaking out about his “apocalyptic” mentality.

Justine Musk, who was married to Musk from 2000 to 2008 and has six kids with him, told podcaster Kara Swisher that “everything is life and death” for her ex-husband.

“I once described him as somebody who can jump off the edge of a cliff and invent a parachute on the way down,” she said.

“I think he thrives on chaos.” “If you listen to the language that he uses—and even taking into account that a lot of it is pitch; it’s performative—everything is very, very urgent,” Justine added.

“‘We’re going to die.’ ‘The world is going to be destroyed.’” Swisher, an expert on all things Musk, declared the predisposition “almost suicidal, apocalyptic.” Justine agreed.

“He really lives with that pitch of intensity, and that’s the place where he feels comfortable,” Justine said.

“And so if he’s too comfortable, he looks for that chaos, and he brings it with him, and he has a way of, of sucking you into it.

At first, it can look a lot like excitement.

It’s that intensity.

I think he really needs that.” The “method” behind the tech tycoon’s “madness” took center stage after he became Donald Trump’s right-hand, funneling nearly $300 million into his 2024 campaign .

Justine warned the public not to underestimate her ex.

“I always assume that there’s a method to his madness,” she said, adding that he does “A lot of sleight of hand; ‘Look over here.’ And then he is doing something” out of view.

The upcoming documentary Musk , from filmmaker Alex Gibney—also a guest on the podcast—alleges that Musk used nefarious means to swing the election toward Trump.

Gibney revealed to Swisher and Justine Musk the moment he became afraid Musk would retaliate for the scathing film.