Elon’s father is an engineer and like Elon, was born in South Africa. Within the 2015 biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Incredible Future, writer Ashlee Vance wrote that Elon and his dad had a tough relationship. In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his dad and mom break up, he moved in with his dad, which, he stated, “was not a good suggestion.”Nevertheless, Errol advised Rolling Stone, “I really like my youngsters and would readily do no matter for them.”In a 2015 Forbes interview, Elon’s dad stated he used to take his children on journeys abroad. “Their mom and I break up up once they had been fairly younger and the children stayed with me,” he stated. “I took them all around the world.”After divorcing Elon’s mom Maye, Errol married Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years outdated on the time. Errol and Heide went on to have two daughters collectively earlier than they, too, broke up. Years later, Jana reached out to Errol following a breakup. “We had been lonely, misplaced folks,” Errol defined in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Instances. “One factor led to a different—you possibly can name it God’s plan or nature’s plan.” Both means, the duo welcomed son Elliott in 2017 after which a child woman in 2019. As Errol put it to The Solar, “The one factor we’re on Earth for is to breed. If I might have one other baby I might. I am unable to see any purpose to not.”