One in all Elon Musk’s former wives spilled romantic grime on the billionaire in an effort to disprove that he’s a “chilly and impassive” businessman.
Actress Talulah Riley, whom Musk married and divorced twice, recounted a blowup the couple had one Christmas after they lived in Boulder, Colo., after he forgot to get her a present.
“He’s probably the most emotional individual I do know,” the “Satisfaction and Prejudice” actress mentioned in a brand new BBC documentary, “The Elon Musk Present,” in regards to the mogul’s rise to fame and fortune, which debuted within the UK on Wednesday.
Riley mentioned Musk “bought up in the midst of the evening and disappeared” earlier than he “got here again two hours later and he’d gone outdoors in his T-shirt and shorts, barefoot, and he’d gone and dug via the snow and picked flowers.”
“He’d walked throughout Boulder and got here again with a bit of bouquet of picked flowers, and he was like, ‘I simply wished to indicate you the way a lot I liked you,’” she instructed the documentary.
Riley mentioned the story illustrates how the narrative of Musk being “chilly and impassive” is fake.
“That might not be farther from the reality,” she mentioned. “He has a type of innocence to him. He feels with unbelievable purity the feelings that he’s feeling on the time, no matter that emotion is. He feels very, very deeply.”
The couple was married between 2010 and 2012, after which once more from 2013 to 2016. They didn’t have any youngsters collectively after Musk had 5 children along with his first spouse. He has since fathered 4 extra children.
Riley referred to as the Tesla CEO the “good ex-husband.”
“The Elon Musk Present” will not be broadcast outdoors the UK, however it’s obtainable on the BBC’s iPlayer streaming service.
